[PLUG] Do you have an EFI partition on the hard drive (formatted GPT rather than DOS)?

[mitch Stanley]

Hi, I believe so as I have not changed any settings. ( I do not
understand completely the Hard Drive terminology).

Thanks , Mitch

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Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2018 08:15:35 -0700 (PDT)
From: Rich Shepard <***@appl-ecosys.com>
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Subject: Re: [PLUG] More details on trying to Install Ubuntu 16.04
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5. Boot Mode is not Legacy but set at default on UFEI
6.Moved Boot Order from Windows Boot Manager to EFI DVD / CD ROM
7. Saved settings.

Mitch,

Do you have an EFI partition on the hard drive (formatted GPT rather than
DOS)?

Rich

[Rich Shepard]

Hi, I believe so as I have not changed any settings. ( I do not
understand completely the Hard Drive terminology).

Mitch,

From a terminal/console, as root, type (without the quotes) 'fdisk -l' and
you'll see something like this:

Disk /dev/sda: 465.8 GiB, 500107862016 bytes, 976773168 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x4d047bf0

Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/sda1 * 63 179687024 179686962 85.7G 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 179687025 179879804 192780 94.1M 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 179879805 211126229 31246425 14.9G 82 Linux swap

The disklable type (on this host) is dos; you want to see gpt instead. And
/dev/sda1 should be type efi (or something really similar to that).

Rich