On Mon, 19 Mar 2012, John Carter wrote:
> Not that the old one was lovable.... BIOS, was a kludgy kludge pasted on
> top of a badly kludged kludge.
> 
>    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Extensible_Firmware_Interface
> 
> Either way UEFI is what is standing between me and a brand new dual booting
> Asus 1215B netbook.
> 
> Of tuppence I'd blast away the Windows 7 partition, but my Glorious
> Overlady, She Who Must Be Obeyed wants me to keep it.
> 
> Sigh! Not having much luck with Oneiric Ocelot amd64... I can install and
> run Oneiric trivially, the blinking UEFI boot code merely insists on
> booting windows and only windows.
> 
> Downloading a daily build of Precise Pangolin now and will give that a try.

Boot Windows as an administrator user, type compmgmt.msc into the search box 
in the windows menu. A window should open , choose Disk Management from the 
left hand panel.

This should display the partitions on your hard srive. If your version of 
windows is using UEFI you should have a small patition at the start of the 
disk marked as SYTEM_DRV partition.

This is where UEFI lives. On no account should you blow away this partition 
witout knowing exactley what you are doing. Romoving this partition will most 
likely brick your computer

Chers Ross Drummond
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