FYI regarding UEFI and Ubuntu: If you want to use UEFI to boot Ubuntu, you need to be sure that you boot the Ubuntu installer using UEFI. I have an Intel motherboard (DB65AL) with UEFI enabled. When you enter the boot menu(F10) with the Ubuntu install disk in the optical drive, the boot menu has both legacy BIOS and UEFI boot entries for the install disk. If you choose the legacy BIOS entry, the installer will not allow you to set up an EFI boot partition. You must choose the UEFI entry when booting. Perhaps this should have been obvious, but I wasted several hours before it finally dawned on me what was happening. Booting either entry brings up the installer, so the difference is not immediately apparent. Only when you bring up the manual partition tool is the difference seen. With a UEFI boot, the partition tool has a 'Use as:' option of 'EFI boot partition'. A legacy BIOS boot will not display this option. I suspect that the choice of legacy BIOS boot or UEFI boot also determines whether a DOS or GPT partition table is created, but I haven't confirmed this.
Note that the above experience is actually with mythbuntu 11.10, but presumably the other Ubuntu install disks would behave similarly. BTW, an advanced topics talk on UEFI would be useful. galen -- Galen Seitz [email protected] _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
