Hello, On Fri, 29 Jun 2012, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >OK, I now have the new disk. Unfortunately, it turns out that GPT is >not an option, since Grub can't dual boot an UEFI/GPT installed >Windows 7 (you can't install Windows on a GPT disk if you don't >perform a UEFI install of Windows.)
You need to boot Windows directly via EFI, and linux via an EFI elilo or grub-efi or grub2 loader (elilo.efi/grub.efi/grubx64.efi in the EFI-boot-partition). See: http://www.rodsbooks.com/efi-bootloaders/index.html >And if Grub can do it, then it's much more difficult to set up >compared to a BIOS boot. I surely don't have a clue as to how to do >that. http://rodsbooks.com/gdisk/ http://rodsbooks.com/gdisk/booting.html (Section "Booting from GPT on BIOS-Based Computers", esp. subsection "Windows" and "Hybrid MBR Issues"). http://rodsbooks.com/gdisk/hybrid.html (titled: "Hybrid MBRs: The Good, the Bad, and the So Ugly You'll Tear Your Eyes Out" ;) HTH, -dnh -- Okay, I hate my brain now. I'm going to take it out back and pummel some sense into it. -- Mark C. Langston
