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Re: Troubles installing alongside Windows 8.1



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On 08/27/2014 03:36 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> I have a laptop that came with Windows 8.1, that uses "secure boot" (EFI)
> and GPT partitions.
> 
> Using windows tools, I shrank the main Windows partition.
> 
> Using the Xubuntu 14.04.1 AMD-64 Desktop DVD, I created a root and a swap
> partition in the hole I had created.  I installed Xubuntu.
> 
> Everything worked except the GRUB install.  When do the necessary bind
> mounts from the DVD and chroot into the laptop's hard drive, grub-install
> says it's installing for x86_64-efi (good!) but then complains that it
> cannot find the EFI partition.
> 
> But gdisk reports that partition 2 on the disk has code EF00, and gparted
> recognizes it as having a VFAT filesystem starting at sector 923648 and
> extending for 260 MiB  It looks normal to me.
> 
> What am I missing?

Is the EFI partition mounted on /boot/efi?

Sarunas Burdulis

http://math.dartmouth.edu/~sarunas
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