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[Norbert Preining <preining@xxxxxxxx>]

HI everyone,

this time I have a question about installing W7:

Hardware Vaio Z11, InSyde BIOS (EFI)
BIOS R2165M3

Windows 7 told me that it cannot be installed onto a harddisk with
MBR (DOS) partition table. 

Ok, I used gdisk to switch to GPT, fine.

Then I tried agian to install W7, which worked all the way through to
the end, but at the end I got:
	Windows could not update the computer's boot configuration.
	Installation cannot proceed.
That is right at the end. Bummer.

Ok, I thought it might be my grub in the beginning of the GPT, but
deleting everything from the start, in fact cancelling the whole GPT
and starting a fresh ended with the same result. Bummer.

At least I could recreate the partition table and got my linux back
running, what a pain.

Has anyone an idea what that could be?

BTW, for that laptop I also found a bios
	M3a - R2169M3b
which seems to allow setting the VT bit in the BIOS, wow!!!

So now my question: Anyone having a good explanation?

The problem is that I cannot actually update the bios now that my Windows
has disappeared ... uahhhhhhh. Any ideas or help?

Best wishes

Norbert

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Dr. Norbert Preining                                        Associate Professor
JAIST Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology   preining@xxxxxxxxxxx
Vienna University of Technology                               preining@xxxxxxxx
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