We have moved the installfest this week only and will be at
Gangplank, LLC, 260 S Arizona Ave, Chandler, AZ 85225, United States
same time 10 am-4 Pm Parking across the street in the parking Garage
or lot at the end of the street,
Another UEFI Adventure
I recently bought a new used Lenovo V570 laptop and wanted to dual boot it with windows 7 and Ubuntu 14.05. I found the drive had been erased with the exception of a recovery partition, but I was unable to access it.
Step 1:
I tried using the original format which was msdos and installed a fresh Windows 7. Unfortunately that failed. The Windows disk required GPT.
Step 2:
Booted live Linux change to GPT and create partitions. installed Windows 7, then installed Ubuntu 14.04. Ubuntu 14.04 installed ok until reboot, then it only showed Windows 7 with no way to get to other operating systems. I checked boot order and checked boot options and tested Windows boot loader option with no luck. Checked Google for a solutin and updated the Bios. Reinstalled failed.
Step 3:
Per one of the forums, I found a recomendation to install as msdos, create the partitions and install Ubuntu 14.04 to rear of HDD, then install Windows 7 from a usb drive (Microsoft has a free downloadable tool to convert a ISO or DVD to a usb) I then use grub rescue to reinstal grub 2. I did find that Windows would install to msdos with no errors of GPT not found.But grub rescue did not work. Using wmacks guide below, I was able to restore grub 2 and make everything work.
Final thoughts:
As shown by wmack’s blog below each UEFI is different and there is no standard way to do anything. I may retry with GPT in order to understand better how it works.
usb tool info at
http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msusa/html/pbPage.Help_Win7_usbdvd_dwnTool
Cottonwood Open Source Software Society (Cottonwood)
Cottonwood AZ Open Source Software Society (Cottonwood)
(google map) (yahoo map)
Hello. My name is Mike and I like Free and Open-Source Software (FOSS). I’m attempting to find a group of people who are like minded. Presently, I’m looking for people who would be interested in socializing but in the future I plan on trying to hold computer-club meetings. The purpose of these meetings is both to be social and to try to teach about open source software. I know there is a computer club here in the Verde Valley but they charge for membership. We will meet at coffee shops and other such places so, as Linux is free, the club will be as well. A third thing I would like to do is to periodically have, what they call in Phoenix, installfests. Installfests are events where people, who wish to test FOSS gather together to install a FOSS operating system on their computers (usually as a dual-boot so as to preserve their windows installation). Please, contact me and we’ll get together 🙂 Name of the group? Why of course…. it is COSSS.
feel free to contact Todd if youhave are interested a Cottonwood event
toddc@azloco.com