Re: UEFI install
On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 07:16:56PM -0300, André Nunes Batista wrote:
> 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
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>
If Legacy BIOS settings are turned off, so that the machine will boot
only from UEFI an install of Debian 7 Wheezy will work: I have two
machines here installed just that way.
You will need to tab down to the advanced options as you boot the
installer and select expert mode : at that point, you can also
choose which desktop to install.
You may be able to install a very basic machine by using
dd to write the DVD image to an 8G USB stick.
AndyC
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