Comment 39 for bug 1355698
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| Lohith Bharadwaj Bommireddipalli (lohithbb) wrote Re: Unable to boot via UEFI into installed freya system | #39 |
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There is a really hacky way of getting around this.
1. First, make sure that secure boot is disabled.
2. The trick I used is to create ANOTHER EFI partition during the installation. This resolves any conflicts that the boot loader may have when it installs into the EFI partition. Although it is recommended that you don't have more than 1 EFI partition, you are going to have to rely on the UEFI BIOS to detect the different boot loader in the BOOT SELECTION menu.
Lets assume that you already have windows installed. This means that there is already an EFI partition, a MSR partition and then your NTFS partitions followed by some free space.
Then while creating the partitions for the linux install, create (another) EFI partition (~400MB), and proceed to create your EXT4 partitions for your different mount points. When selecting the device to install the bootloader to select the PARTITION (sdXY), NOT THE DISK (sdX).
Once the installation is complete you can select which OS to boot into via UEFI boot menu. This also means that GRUB doesn't detect the Windows installation, and hence can be safely removed without affection the boot method of Windows. It is especially useful if you plan on installing multiple linux distros on the same disk (you can use the newly created EFI partition to install GRUB to - and this works because GRUB plays nice with other linux distros)