Re: Questions on Grub2 and UEFI

I ended up making a separate EFI partition and installing the boot manager
on it through the Ubuntu installation process.
That worked for me.

On Sat, Dec 10, 2016 at 7:51 PM, Colin Rooney <[email protected]>
wrote:

> What I did was left the /dev/sda (with windows 8.1) untouched.
> Installed ubuntu on the /dev/sdb including installing the boot partition
> there (/dev/sdb).
>
> Now when I boot my laptop, it loads the disk I've set as the default boot
> disk, but if I want to boot the other OS, I press F12 on my laptop where I
> can select the boot device.  Then I can choose to boot from sda in windows
> or sdb in Ubuntu.
>
> I didn't plan on leaving it that way but it actually turned out to work
> pretty well so never bothered changing things!
>
> Colin
>
> On 10 December 2016 at 00:54, Braun Brelin <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm trying to install Ubuntu 16.04 LTS on a system that has Windows 8 on
>> an SSD at /dev/sda.  I'm trying to install Ubuntu on /dev/sdb.  The real
>> problem comes in the grub2 boot loader not being able to boot Windows 8.  I
>> tried downloading boot-repair but it keeps telling me that I'm running in
>> 'legacy' mode and need to boot as using UEFI.
>>
>> I've been using google to try and figure this out but the answers are
>> rather confusing.
>>
>> Do I need to create an EFI systems partition on /dev/sdb and install
>> grub2 there?
>> Or do I need to install the grub2 boot manager on the EFI systems
>> partition on /dev/sda that currently contains the Windows boot manager?
>>
>> Or is there something that I'm missing here?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Braun Brelin
>>
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