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## I never did get this to work and eventually gave away the laptop. ##
Marked for deletion? Or is it still useful to people?
I have recently (as of July 2012) bought a HP Pavilion dv6-6c40ca laptop. It came pre-installed with Windows 7 on an MBR. I installed Ubuntu 12.04 on it on a GPT partition in what I think is BIOS emulation mode. I made a BIOS-Grub partition so the install didn't fail. That is what it is for .. right? Now I want to upgrade to UEFI mode.
How would I Install Ubuntu 12.04 in UEFI mode on a HP Pavilion dv6-6c40ca.
Or is it impossible? My laptop, despite its new age may not be UEFI 2.0+ capable. If it isn't how can I install a software UEFI (i.e. a DUET such as the one by tianocore). Or is this too impossible?
A link to my laptop's specs is: http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c03137924&tmp_task=prodinfoCategory&cc=ca&dlc=en&lang=en&lc=en&product=5218530
My laptop should have a UEFI given this link from HP http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?cc=us&lc=en&docname=c01442956#N218. And from the link I draw a quote: That means most notebooks distributed with Windows Vista, and all notebooks distributed with Windows 7, have the UEFI environment. My laptop had Windows 7 Home Premium pre-installed.
OK. Following the comments so far --
NOTE: I am trying to do this on an external drive so I can see if it works.
- I have partitioned the drive using GParted as a GPT drive.
- Created a 200MB partition at the beginning of the drive with a FAT32 file system.
- Given the 200MB partition a label of "EFI".
- Set the boot flag on the 200MB partition.
What should a do next to install Ubuntu 12.04?
Given the link: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UEFIBooting#Selecting_the_.28U.29EFI_Graphic_Protocol
In my first read through (just to see if I will understand everything before I start) I get to step 2.3 Install GRUB2 in (U)EFI systems
The first line is Boot into Linux (any live ISO) preferably in UEFI mode. Um .. how do you tell what mode your live CD is in?! And how do you change it if the mode is wrong?
It's possible. Here is described how: http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/31199/what-should-i-do-before-dual-booting-windows-7-and-debian-on-efi/40775#40775
– Marco – 2012-08-04T08:47:29.133The article is an interesting read .. but it is a little high level for me. Do you think you could provide a step by step (with backup/restore of my data) version? – Marlen T. B. – 2012-08-04T18:08:35.767