Well I have a macbook 7.1.<br><br>I used rEFI to sort the EFI out. The problem was mainly around getting changes written to disk, but that couldnt happen as whenever I installed via DVD or USB stick, it claimed it couldn't write the changes because it couldn't unmount the cdrom. I tried both Mint 14 and Ubuntu.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 25 February 2013 14:15, J Aguado <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:j@aguado.co.uk" target="_blank">j@aguado.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Stuart, <br><br>if you are using a newish Machine, you will need to modify the BIOS so it does not use the UEFI boot loader security feature.<br></div>In my case, as my machine came with windows 8 OEM, once I disabled the "security" at the BIOS level, Mint 14 KDE installer worked like a charm. It detected my windows partitions, and it installed Grub2 adding an entry for W8. It even mounts the NTFS mount points, rw, without any issues.<br>
<br></div>Do not despair, there is always a way ;)<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br><br></font></span></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">J.<br></font></span></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2013/2/25 Stuart Burns <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:stuart.james.burns@gmail.com" target="_blank">stuart.james.burns@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Well I spent a good few hours yesterday trying to get ANY Linux to dual boot. I just gave up in the END. EFI and MAC just seem to be a complete pain.<div>
<div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 25 February 2013 11:39, Bogus Zaba <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bogus@bogzab.plus.com" target="_blank">bogus@bogzab.plus.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> On 22/02/13 17:57, Roger Gibson wrote:<br>
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I dual boot Windoze 7 with Ubuntu (updated through many versions)and<br>
have no problems with rwx access to Windoze partitions (same on my<br>
desktop, laptop and notebook).<br>
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Although I use a separate ntfs partition for my 'data' files, so as to<br>
facilitate reloading/changing loaded OS, (MS software support<br>
recommended to me reloading Windoze every 12 months to remove<br>
'inevitable ongoing corruptions')<br>
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Stranger here - I have never been to the Chester LUG, but I have been lurking on the list for a while (based in Denbighshire and working in Liverpool so passing through Chester quite a lot).<br>
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Just to contribute to the dual-booting discussion - my Thinkpad laptop dual boots Slackware and Windows 7 quite happily, although with VirtualBox, QEMU and Wine I rarely need to actually cold-boot into Windows. Slackware comes with LILO as the boot manager and only command line utilities for re-sizing the partitions which you need to do when installing Linux on a PC with Windows pre-loaded but it all worked fine for me - I can read and write to the original Windows (NTFS) partition as required with no issues. There may have been some magic stuff had to be put into /etc/fstab to achieve the write-access if I recall correctly.<br>
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