On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 12:28 PM, Greg Madden <gomadtr...@gci.net> wrote: > > > 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 Which vitualiation medium you used ie virtual box?
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