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Old 01-22-2014, 05:30 PM   #16
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Hi

thats weird a got a 404 on your hit but got it by using the archive system and got

Code:
blog.fpmurphy.com/2010/03/grub2-efi-support.html
LQ may be prefacing the blog it to add http;// ?
 
Old 01-22-2014, 05:52 PM   #17
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and forgot to ask about your fat32 formatting versus fat16

do you have an install disk for windows?

did you copy those files off the fat16 disk, if not, to removeable media so you could re-install them
after fat32-----with no idea if that works

looking at this link, fat32 seems to be the way to go

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UEFI

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Creating an EFI partition

If you are manually partitioning your disk in the Ubuntu installer, you need to make sure you have an EFI partition set up.

If your disk already contains an EFI partition (eg if your computer had Windows8 preinstalled), it can be used for Ubuntu too. Do not format it. It is strongly recommended to have only 1 EFI partition per disk.

An EFI partition can be created via a recent version of GParted (the Gparted version included in the 12.04 disk is OK), and must have the following attributes:

Mount point: /boot/efi (remark: no need to set this mount point when using the manual partitioning, the Ubuntu installer will detect it automatically)

Size: minimum 100Mib. 200MiB recommended.

Type: FAT32

Other: needs a "boot" flag.

so it looks like, you can keep fat16 only if you keep its bootable flag

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Old 01-22-2014, 08:54 PM   #18
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Actually, yeah, I reformatted to fat32 - I read in a few places that fat16 was also acceptable. I did my best to conform to the standard, but in the end EFI wasn't happening. I may give it a shot next week, though.

Have you tried doing this on your system? Any luck with it?
 
Old 01-23-2014, 03:22 AM   #19
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nope I have an old bios and have no plans of installing windows

much later if I can't config the bios to legacy (non-UEFI) mode I might look at it

sorry
 
  


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