Re: Wheezy: Questions about UEFI boot etc.

2013-05-18 Thread Svante Signell
ping! I'm planning to install Debian GNU/Linux on more boxes. thanks! On Thu, 2013-05-16 at 14:04 +0200, Svante Signell wrote: > On Thu, 2013-05-16 at 00:10 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > > On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 09:57:40PM +0200, Svante Signell wrote: > > >On Wed, 2013-05-15 at 17:46 +0200, Sv

Re: Wheezy: Questions about UEFI boot etc.

2013-05-16 Thread Svante Signell
On Thu, 2013-05-16 at 00:10 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 09:57:40PM +0200, Svante Signell wrote: > >On Wed, 2013-05-15 at 17:46 +0200, Svante Signell wrote: > >> On Wed, 2013-05-15 at 10:05 -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > >[...] > >Happiness :-) Booting using grub now wor

Re: Wheezy: Questions about UEFI boot etc.

2013-05-15 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 09:57:40PM +0200, Svante Signell wrote: >On Wed, 2013-05-15 at 17:46 +0200, Svante Signell wrote: >> On Wed, 2013-05-15 at 10:05 -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: >[...] >> Thanks both of you for your help. I have now reinstalled wheezy. All >> seems to go well again, even for

Re: Wheezy: Questions about UEFI boot etc.

2013-05-15 Thread Svante Signell
On Wed, 2013-05-15 at 17:46 +0200, Svante Signell wrote: > On Wed, 2013-05-15 at 10:05 -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: [...] > Thanks both of you for your help. I have now reinstalled wheezy. All > seems to go well again, even for grub-efi to install. Since I did not > get a question I assume the in

Re: Wheezy: Questions about UEFI boot etc.

2013-05-15 Thread Svante Signell
On Wed, 2013-05-15 at 10:05 -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 08:39:42AM +0200, Svante Signell wrote: > > The installation went well, thanks. The remaining problem is that W8 > > boot manager partition on the SSD /dev/sda2 has the boot flag set (not > > changeable from Linux,

Re: Wheezy: Questions about UEFI boot etc.

2013-05-15 Thread Steve McIntyre
svante.sign...@gmail.com wrote: >On Wed, 2013-05-15 at 14:44 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: >> On Wed, 2013-05-15 at 15:20 +0200, Svante Signell wrote: >[...] >> > Can the problem be that the EFI partition containing W8 is /dev/sda2, >> > while I have been writing grub to /dev/sda and /dev/sda5 (Linux

Re: Wheezy: Questions about UEFI boot etc.

2013-05-15 Thread Svante Signell
On Wed, 2013-05-15 at 14:44 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Wed, 2013-05-15 at 15:20 +0200, Svante Signell wrote: [...] > > Can the problem be that the EFI partition containing W8 is /dev/sda2, > > while I have been writing grub to /dev/sda and /dev/sda5 (Linux /)? > > All EFI boot loaders are wr

Re: Wheezy: Questions about UEFI boot etc.

2013-05-15 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 08:39:42AM +0200, Svante Signell wrote: > The installation went well, thanks. The remaining problem is that W8 > boot manager partition on the SSD /dev/sda2 has the boot flag set (not > changeable from Linux, is it from W8?) On the SSD the Linux partition > is /dev/sda5, whi

Re: Wheezy: Questions about UEFI boot etc.

2013-05-15 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 03:58:07PM +0200, Svante Signell wrote: > So installing grub (grub-efi-amd64) to /dev/sda (the EFI partition > is /dev/sda2) is the right thing to do? (to boot Linux, and then solve > the (eventually) missing Windows 8 entry in grub later) I believe windows will stay in the

Re: Wheezy: Questions about UEFI boot etc.

2013-05-15 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Wed, 2013-05-15 at 15:20 +0200, Svante Signell wrote: > On Wed, 2013-05-15 at 13:58 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > On Wed, 2013-05-15 at 08:39 +0200, Svante Signell wrote: > > [...] > > > On the SSD the Linux partition > > > is /dev/sda5, which I made bootable (also UEFI boot). However, even if

Re: Wheezy: Questions about UEFI boot etc.

2013-05-15 Thread Svante Signell
On Wed, 2013-05-15 at 13:58 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Wed, 2013-05-15 at 08:39 +0200, Svante Signell wrote: > [...] > > On the SSD the Linux partition > > is /dev/sda5, which I made bootable (also UEFI boot). However, even if > > grub is written to /dev/sda no grub menu appears, and only W8

Re: Wheezy: Questions about UEFI boot etc.

2013-05-15 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Wed, 2013-05-15 at 08:39 +0200, Svante Signell wrote: [...] > The installation went well, thanks. The remaining problem is that W8 > boot manager partition on the SSD /dev/sda2 has the boot flag set (not > changeable from Linux, is it from W8?) I don't think this boot flag is meaningful on an i

Re: Wheezy: Questions about UEFI boot etc.

2013-05-14 Thread Svante Signell
On Tue, 2013-05-14 at 13:58 -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 07:25:55PM +0200, Svante Signell wrote: > > Hi, > > (Please Cc: me, I'm not subscribed) > > 3) I plan to split both large disks partitions into a small W8 part and > > a larger Linux part. Should I do the split in

Re: Wheezy: Questions about UEFI boot etc.

2013-05-14 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 07:25:55PM +0200, Svante Signell wrote: > Hi, > (Please Cc: me, I'm not subscribed) > > I'm about to install Debian Wheezy on a ACER Predator G3620 with Windows > 8 installed. The hard disks are an 128GB SSD and 1TB HDD. I have a few > questions: > 1) I had to disable secur

Wheezy: Questions about UEFI boot etc.

2013-05-14 Thread Svante Signell
Hi, (Please Cc: me, I'm not subscribed) I'm about to install Debian Wheezy on a ACER Predator G3620 with Windows 8 installed. The hard disks are an 128GB SSD and 1TB HDD. I have a few questions: 1) I had to disable secure boot in the BIOS to be able to boot with the CD. What is checked wrt secure