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Before, I had two hard drives on my computer: one had Linux Mint 17.2 and the other had Windows 10. I recently got a 500GB solid state drive for my computer to replace the Linux hard drive. So, I want to have Windows 10 Home on the 1TB hard drive and Linux Mint 17.2 on the SSD. I also want their partition tables to be in GPT rather than MBR, but this has caused a slew of headaches for me. After realizing that I had to boot the Windows install DVD in UEFI mode to get it to install on GPT, I managed to install it to my hard drive and it works fine. Now, I'm trying to install Linux Mint on the SSD. I downloaded an installation ISO of Mint 17.2 and burned it to a DVD. I then tried to boot the DVD in UEFI mode, but it failed to boot (I got an error message about some missing file), so I booted in Legacy mode. Probably because of this, the install process failed when it tried and failed to install grub. It couldn't install it on any of the drives. I don't know what to do now. I tried making a bootable USB drive, but I think my USB stick is faulty because I am unable to wipe its partitions (what partition table do you recommend for the USB drive?). Here are my hardware specs: Motherboard: Asus Z87-A CPU: Intel Core i7 3.4 GHz SSD Drive: Samsung 850 EVO 500GB Hard drive: Western Digital Velociraptor 10,000 RPM 1TB Graphics card: nVidia GeForce 970 RAM: 8GB EDIT: Fixed it. The installation DVD for Mint can be booted in UEFI mode if you start Linux in compatibility mode. PHEW! Baron Bifford fucked around with this message at 19:00 on Oct 14, 2015 |
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You can find instructions online for getting GRUB to work with UEFI, but i have never been able to get it to work. I've had the Ubuntu USB stick booting in UEFI, but the installation seems to be legacy only. Best of luck finding a working guide.
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