How can I install a dual boot centos in my laptop while my windows has UEFI partition?
It's risky and a bit complicated. However I've tried it (on a workstation, not on a laptop) and it worked (CentOS/Win8 dualboot) fine. Backing up your entire disk to an img file before attempting to make a dual-boot setup CentOS/Windows on a laptop would be an excellent first step.
Create a USB image according to the instructions below: https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/...
You also have to burn at least the first DVD on a disc, since the USB installer will later ask you for the source media of the packages to install. That is, the USB image contains just the necessary things to boot in UEFI mode, then it needs a DVD to continue the installation from there.
So in case your laptop does not have a DVD reader, be prepared to use a portable one (probably with USB connection).
CAUTION! you will need to properly define the /boot/efi partition in order not to mess things up with your existing Windows installation! That means you need to find the existing EFI partition and just mount it as /boot/efi WITHOUT FORMATTING IT !
Good luck
On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 1:52 PM, Hossein Lanjanian hossein.lanjanian@gmail.com wrote:
How can I install a dual boot centos in my laptop while my windows has UEFI partition?
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