Where does Grub go?

[techguy378]

I'm trying to dual boot between 64-bit Windows 7 and Linux Mint 9. Should Grub be installed in the EFI system partition or is there someplace else it should be installed?

 

[MarkG]

On my Linux/Windows laptop I just installed it to /dev/sda and it worked out everything for itself.

Though on my home server GRUB1 worked fine when installed to /dev/sda (GPT drive), while GRUB2 wouldn't boot unless it was installed to /dev/sdb (MSDOS partition table).

 

[techguy378]

I tried installing Ubuntu 9.10 to /dev/sda a long time ago. For some reason Linux was the only option listed in the Grub boot menu and when I selected it my computer froze. My computer was no longer able to boot Windows. I could be wrong, but on an EFI system I think the MBR is just there for backwards compatibility. It's sole purpose is to point the computer to the EFI system partition where the boot files are stored.

 

[skittle]

Hi, if use EFI you need special EFI GRUB!!!

 

[techguy378]

I thought the version of Grub included with Linux Mint 9 supported EFI.