On Fri, 2014-04-18 at 10:19 -0400, Gary Dale wrote: > On 18/04/14 12:33 AM, Corey Blair wrote: > > I got a new laptop without a CD/DVD drive and am trying to install off > > a USB image and either dual boot my pre-installed windows 8.1 or just > > wipe and use strictly Debian. I get all the way to the point of > > installing GRUB and it fails. I've read that this may have something > > to do with the disk being GPT instead of MBR? How do I get a dual > > boot Windows 8.1 and Debian Wheezy install? Or at the least have > > Debian successfully installed (although I'm afraid of wiping the HDD > > and losing the ability to revert back to Windows) > > > > > You may not be able to. The problem may be that Wheezy is too old. > Coexistence with UEFI is still developing. > > However, Wheezy can handle GPT disks just fine. > > To test this, turn of UEFI in the BIOS and try the install again. To > make things easier, first use Windows disk manager to shrink the Windows > partition. Create a new partition in the free space and also leave a > small empty (a few hundred megabytes) space somewhere for the EFI System > Partition. > > Then start the Wheezy install. If that works, turn UEFI back on and try > booting into both OSs. > > It is possible to install debian wheezy with uefi enabled, take a look: https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2014/03/msg01372.html and the subsequent answer by Andrew. -- André N. Batista GNUPG/PGP KEY: 6722CF80
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