-----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-----
