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11/3/12 at 9:27pm
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Hey everyone, hopefully someone more knowledgeable than myself can point me in the right direction here. Installing 12.10 on one of my folding machines, and I usually customize the partitions so that I can use the ext3 filesystem which is supposedly more efficient for folding only use. However, I noticed that there is no boot partition on the drop-down, so I can't make one. I've been going around in circles with this machine as it will install fully but will not boot afterwards, and I think it has to do with the MSI UEFI on my Z77A-GD55, as I have not encountered this problem performing the same install on multiple other machines.

What can I do to fix this? I'm sure there is a way to manually configure the partitions using the terminal but I don't know where to find that information. Thanks for any help you guys can offer.
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11/3/12 at 9:35pm
Is GParted on the live disc? If so you can just use that to make the partition then continue on with the install.
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11/3/12 at 9:43pm
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Is GParted on the live disc? If so you can just use that to make the partition then continue on with the install.

I don't know for sure, its a USB stick I made. If it was, it would pop up in the menu once I boot from the stick, correct?
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11/4/12 at 1:16am
Boot GParted off another CD/Flash Disk

Manually partition the drive

Then boot the OS install media, when it asks you to partition say no and pick the pre-created partitions.

Install Ubuntu onto the / partition and GRUB onto /boot

Job done.

PS: Technically you can install everything into a single partition, not advised though...
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