[Chester LUG] Chester Digest, Vol 271, Issue 7

[Sebastian Arcus]

No sure about Mint or Ubuntu - but I didn't have much trouble installing 
and dual-booting Slackware and Windows 7 on a UEFI machine. As others 
say - secure boot (if available) should be disabled in BIOS. Also, don't 
know what other variables the Mac side of things introduces into the 
equation. When installing Linux, I booted of a live cd, mounted the UEFI 
system partition, and dropped my kernel and boot loader (Elilo in my 
case) manually in the right place. Then I've created an entry in Bios 
for the Elilo loader.

Then again, maybe none of the above is applicable when installing on a 
Mac. I know Ubuntu is using Grub2 - which in a sense is more capable - 
but I have to say when trying to reconfigure it by hand on one of my 
machines - seemed like a box of spanners compared to the old Grub. And 
few other people on forums seemed to share the frustration.

Sebastian




On 25/02/13 14:28, Stuart Burns wrote:
> Well I have a macbook 7.1.
>
> 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.
>
> On 25 February 2013 14:15, J Aguado <j at aguado.co.uk
> <mailto:j at aguado.co.uk>> wrote:
>
>     Stuart,
>
>     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.
>     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.
>
>     Do not despair, there is always a way  ;)
>
>     J.
>
>
>     2013/2/25 Stuart Burns <stuart.james.burns at gmail.com
>     <mailto:stuart.james.burns at gmail.com>>
>
>         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.
>
>
>         On 25 February 2013 11:39, Bogus Zaba <bogus at bogzab.plus.com
>         <mailto:bogus at bogzab.plus.com>> wrote:
>
>               On 22/02/13 17:57, Roger Gibson wrote:
>
>                     I dual boot Windoze 7 with Ubuntu (updated through
>                     many versions)and
>                     have no problems with rwx access to Windoze
>                     partitions (same on my
>                     desktop, laptop and notebook).
>
>                     Although I use a separate ntfs partition for my
>                     'data' files, so as  to
>                     facilitate reloading/changing loaded OS, (MS
>                     software support
>                     recommended to me reloading Windoze every 12 months
>                     to remove
>                     'inevitable ongoing corruptions')
>
>             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).
>
>             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.
>
>             Bogus Zaba
>
>
>
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