On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 04:22:05PM +0000, Michael Holmes wrote: > On 30 October 2011 15:19, alan c <[email protected]> wrote: > > ....... “My friend recently got an HP s5-1110 with Win 7 installed. > > UEFI has prevented the installation of GRUB on this machine. > > This is going to happen even if you don't have Secure Boot. UEFI and > BIOS *do not* have compatible boot systems. You need a UEFI compatible > bootloader like eLILO or a UEFI compatible version of GRUB - which as > far as I know, doesn't ship with Ubuntu by default.
Actually it does (on 64-bit images), but of course that doesn't guarantee that it will work as it's generally less well-tested at the moment. I agree with Alan that this is unlikely to have anything to do with "Secure Boot". I haven't heard of systems actually shipping yet with a new enough version of UEFI to be affected by that, and in any case I would be inclined to apply Occam's Razor. -- Colin Watson [[email protected]] -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
