[PLUG] Are we having booting fun yet? (no)
Galen Seitz
galens at seitzassoc.com
Tue Jan 31 16:35:00 UTC 2012
logical american wrote:
> Galen:
>
> The Asus P8H61-M claims that it is an EFI board, so I probably should be
> using UEFI.
>
> Unfortunately, I am currently using BIOS, and while GRUB2 could see the
> gpt partitions, it could not get the boot correct.
>
> I even tried making 2 primary partitions under MSDOS, in hopes that
> GRUB2 would see them, but the gparted manager would only allow 1 boot flag.
>
> Not sure where to go from here. (It is my growing impression that the
> install scripts on the Live CD for Ubuntu are pretty rigid)
>
> Anyone know how to set up a UEFI boot for Ubuntu 12.04?
Have you tried booting the Live CD using UEFI? If not, I'd recommend
trying that. On my Intel board, it's under Boot->UEFI Boot->Enabled.
If that works, I think the installer will default to using UEFI+GPT.
galen
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