On 30 October 2011 18:59, Colin Watson <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
Well, my apologies - guess I should do my research! Of course, it doesn't preclude the possibility that this person downloaded the i386 ISO, which doesn't include the UEFI-capable GRUB. Of course, this is still hardly specific vendor lock-out to Linux - OSes shipping with UEFI bootloaders can still boot, and Vista or the i386 edition of Windows 7 wouldn't be able to boot either. -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
