OK some googling  later :) .

UEFI seems to be involved .ASUSTeK model: P9X79 is one of the spanking
new mobos that supports this

Win 7 boots from a separate EFI partition .

While Mint does not use EFI it uses normal bios boot mode

Apparently EFI was something pioneered on never intel MAC's but it is
comming to PC too, I think we can expect a lot of bios upgrades before
this functions properly .
The intention is to actually have a better boot manager ......

There you have I just bought the PC and let the guys in the shop put it
together so a few surprises are probably expected. I specified
performance and they helped to pick suitable hardware

Well next year I assume all Linux distros are up to speed with EFI 

There is the rEFInd boot manager of course but it is currently not a
n00b endeavour to install.


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