Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is wrong 4k sector alignment still an issue?

[David Haller <gentoo@dhaller.de>]

Hello,

On Fri, 29 Jun 2012, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>OK, I now have the new disk.  Unfortunately, it turns out that GPT is
>not an option, since Grub can't dual boot an UEFI/GPT installed
>Windows 7 (you can't install Windows on a GPT disk if you don't
>perform a UEFI install of Windows.)

You need to boot Windows directly via EFI, and linux via an EFI
elilo or grub-efi or grub2 loader (elilo.efi/grub.efi/grubx64.efi in
the EFI-boot-partition).

See: http://www.rodsbooks.com/efi-bootloaders/index.html

>And if Grub can do it, then it's much more difficult to set up
>compared to a BIOS boot.  I surely don't have a clue as to how to do
>that.

http://rodsbooks.com/gdisk/

http://rodsbooks.com/gdisk/booting.html (Section 
"Booting from GPT on BIOS-Based Computers", esp. subsection "Windows"
and "Hybrid MBR Issues").

http://rodsbooks.com/gdisk/hybrid.html
(titled: "Hybrid MBRs: The Good, the Bad, and the So Ugly You'll Tear
Your Eyes Out" ;)

HTH,
-dnh

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