On Sun, 1 Jan 2017, Michael . wrote:
A little more information on what distro you are using would be helpful.
Debian Live build now has proper UEFI support so you can build, or get
someone to build one for you, a live image and use that to install it.
Grub-efi should install, if you are using an efi capable installer and
Windows is installed using efi, and you should then be able to select
whatever OS you want as you would normally using Grub.
as mentioned, I have Windows 7 and NetRunner; I want to add Trinity. I
like Hare's exegnu version.
however, I guess I can install Debian Live with uefi support. then
load Trinity on top of it!
I will have to check if I installed Windows via uefi. NetRunner is,
I'm pretty sure, using uefi.
however, you imply that there will be problems if Windows is not under
uefi. presumably I would have to boot it from the 'BIOS' instead of
via grub-efi. if so, not pretty but tolerable. I don't have time right
now for magic surgical operations.
f.
On 1 January 2017 at 06:22, Felmon Davis <davisf@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sat, 31 Dec 2016, Gene Heskett wrote:
On Saturday 31 December 2016 12:56:59 Felmon Davis wrote:
greets!
I want to install Trinity on a multiboot uefi system. I think I've
messed up the uefi already so I am wary about doing something that
renders the system unbootable. (will of course do backup but still...)
it's got Windows 7 and NetRunner on it. csm is turned on (which I
think is part of the problem) and of course secure boot and fast boot
are off.
CSM? Definition plz.
I'd have to google what the acronym stands for but it's a utility in UEFI
which allows 'legacy' booting, that is, booting via the MBR.
So am I as I've not bought a board with a UEFI bios on it yet. However,
there is not a single reason trinity, to my knowledge, writes anything
to the MBR.
not sure what you mean: that's where some of the partitioning code used to
lodge. I forget the details but something like BIOS jumps to code in the
MBR which knows the partitioning scheme. UEFI, replacing BIOS, uses a
different process. details cloudy. the crucial code is in a uefi-boot
partition.
I don't like it defaulting to NetRunner since I wanted it to default to
grub and then I could manage everything there. I'd like Windows, NetRunner
(soon Maui?) and Trinity. I may remove NetRunner in the longer run but it's
been fun and useful.
f.
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