Linux, Lenovo, AMD Radeon

[Petter Adsen]

On Sun, 28 Feb 2016 17:08:40 +1100
Karl Auer <kauer at biplane.com.au> wrote:

> On Sun, 2016-02-28 at 15:51 +1100, Karl Auer wrote:
> > I don't know what that means. Surely Windows has such a partition,
> > or is it an EFI partition just for Ubuntu? If so, why did it not
> > create one for itself?  
> 
> Windows does have a partition mounted on /boot/efi, but it is of type
> FAT32, not type "EFI System Partition".

File system type (FAT32) and partition type are two different things.
If you look at the disk with gdisk, for instance, it will list the ESP
as partition type EF00.

> I am now utterly confused. I'm a bit worried that even if I blow
> windows away, the system will stll refuse to boot linux...

You will need to get GRUB properly installed first, then it should
boot. I have no idea why that didn't happen first time around.

Petter

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