-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 05/07/2014 05:16 PM, Alan E. Davis wrote:
I would like to sign off with a little information about how this has gone.
I had used the "F12" boot options method once. Subsequently, the Windows Boot Loader appeared on the GRUB menu. I have since then installed Fedora 20, and it went very well.
I now see that if once specifies "UEFI" as the boot method in the BIOS, and not Legacy or Both, these linux distros look for the EFI partition (or whatever that is called), and if one specifies it to be mounted wihtout formating in the parititioning scheme, all goes well.
Thank everyone for the help. Now the machine boots right into GRUB.
Alan Davis To Alan,
That's excellent. But, the point of UEFI is not to use any boot managers like GRUB. A proper UEFI install should be able to boot directly off the firmware. On a very high level, UEFI internalizes boot loaders like GRUB so instead of chainloading with a boot loader, one boots directly into a UEFI program (windows, linux, mac os, etc...) I am glad to hear that your machine setup is working though. Might I add, if you are truly booting into UEFI mode with Linux (could be Ubuntu or Arch), you could probably apply the procedures in the Arch Wiki to boot Arch Linux without a boot loader <https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/EFISTUB#Directly.2C_without_boot_manager> Regards, Mark -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iF4EAREIAAYFAlNqpxgACgkQZ/Z80n6+J/bisQD/YRhelmYEwJP4PMLSkRqoi3Ks FYFGPDQXzRy4V+3yXDgA/1TxiqAz7SsOl/NpV7jXumpKLPoQ7tvjPmxbQgU5RmTQ =Vhpg -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----