From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1SkgNB-0007b6-9v for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 29 Jun 2012 18:56:53 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CEBDEE081C; Fri, 29 Jun 2012 18:56:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96A7AE07C8 for ; Fri, 29 Jun 2012 18:54:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26B4B1B40B5 for ; Fri, 29 Jun 2012 18:54:42 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -1.156 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.156 tagged_above=-999 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.147, BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.001, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, FSL_RCVD_USER=0.001, NML_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.9, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.01] autolearn=no Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id sBiWCQyYGyOh for ; Fri, 29 Jun 2012 18:54:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 23F431B4049 for ; Fri, 29 Jun 2012 18:54:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SkgKq-0000m5-Tu for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Fri, 29 Jun 2012 20:54:28 +0200 Received: from athedsl-352805.home.otenet.gr ([85.72.233.195]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 29 Jun 2012 20:54:28 +0200 Received: from realnc by athedsl-352805.home.otenet.gr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 29 Jun 2012 20:54:28 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Nikos Chantziaras Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Is wrong 4k sector alignment still an issue? Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2012 21:54:20 +0300 Organization: Lucas Barks Message-ID: References: <20120626232253.363fef5d@hactar.digimed.co.uk> <20120629042208.GA5977@grusum.endjinn.de> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: athedsl-352805.home.otenet.gr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:13.0) Gecko/20120607 Thunderbird/13.0 In-Reply-To: <20120629042208.GA5977@grusum.endjinn.de> X-Archives-Salt: c8a0a8d4-f0c0-4450-9614-672bfb54b680 X-Archives-Hash: 5086adc9e744ff426dd11f21c53d241b On 29/06/12 07:22, David Haller wrote: > 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" ;) I settled with an MBR-based boot solution and MSDOS partitioning, like before. It's easy to setup. The whole EFI multiboot setup does not seem worth the effort to me. If it was easier to setup, I'd go for it, but as it stands, it's a nightmare to work with.