dual booting Ubuntu 13.04 and Windows 7

[Basil Chupin]

On 29/05/13 02:25, Tom H wrote:
> On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 11:51 AM, Basil Chupin <blchupin at iinet.net.au> wrote:
>> On 27/05/13 17:03, Tom H wrote:
>
>>> If you're using UEFI, there's no MBR! If you're using UEFI, you can go
>>> into the firmware either right after boot or from the grub menu ("System
>>> setup") and select Windows or Ubuntu - unless you've deleted the UEFI boot
>>> entries from NVRAM. Once in Ubuntu, you can fix grub to display both Windows
>>> and Ubuntu options. I've installed Ubuntu alongside both Win7 and Win8 (the
>>> latter with SB) without a hitch.
>
>> Correct me if I am wrong but Win 7 does not require UEFI, even if the mobo
>> has UEFI; Win 8 on the other hand probably does require UEFI to function.
> Neither win7 nor Win8 require UEFI.
>
> Microsoft's Win8 certification requires UEFI with "Secure Boot".
>
>
>> Both my computer and my wife's have UEFI motherboards but UEFI is turned
>> off.
> To be exact: you're using UEFI in legacy mode. :)

Whatever. All I said was that I installed my Linux distro which had in 7 
pre-installed with no hassles of any description (apart from shrinking 
the Windows partition to make room for openSUSE) :-)

BC

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