On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 11:41 AM, Ross Drummond <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
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