[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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