On Friday 10 August 2012 1:17:16 am Martin Steigerwald wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 9. August 2012 schrieb Greg Madden: > > On Thursday 09 August 2012 4:37:05 am L V Gandhi wrote: > > > On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 9:58 AM, Gary Dale <garyd...@rogers.com> wrote: > > > > On 08/08/12 08:48 PM, L V Gandhi wrote: > > > >> Has any one installed dual boot system of windows and squeeze in > > > >> ultrabooks with both mSATA SSD and HDD? > > > >> Kindly give links or procedure to keep windows and linux. > > > > > > > > You don't have to do anything special. Just partition the disks the > > > > way you like. Linux installers normally expect that dual booting > > > > is a common requirement so they usually handle it pretty well. > > > > > > I think it is not so easy as I have googled it. Intel RST, UEFI etc > > > making things difficult and many have bricked their system. Hence my > > > post. > > > > I think the issues you read about are for Windows 8 and the 'secure > > boot' feature of the UEFI bios? > > > > I have not tried Squeeze, Wheezy works fine on a Thinkpad with the UEFI > > bios, SSD & mSata. > > I think Squeeze does not support UEFI properly. It would at least need > a 3.2 backport kernel > > What did you do to make it work? I have tried two times to get > either of: > > - GPT + UEFI > - MBR + UEFI > - GPT + BIOS > > to work on a ThinkPad T520 and the only think that works right now is > > - MBR + BIOS > > My problem was that the UEFI boot menu never offered to boot from the > EFI boot partition that I made. I think I might have been missing some > efibootmgr magic that was explained here or elsewhere before, but as you > managed to get to work, I´d like to know the exact steps or a link to a > guide that works, before trying again. Why the GPT + BIOS stuff did not > work is beyond me – I hat a BIOS boot partition for GRUB and grub-install > also seemed to use it. > > I bet its not really faster tough since the ThinkPad doesn´t take much > time in the BIOS anyway. And due to LVM I do not really need GPT, but it > would be nice to have it anyway.
I am not dual booting, I am using virtualization for the second OS. I have two ssd's, not at the same time, Win7 host and a Wheezy host. Not sure about all the: > - GPT + UEFI > - MBR + UEFI > - GPT + BIOS I just installed Wheezy and it seemed to install just like any other install I have done. -- Peace, Greg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201208102258.05823.gomadtr...@gci.net