I've searched a lot for my problem but couldn't be sure what should I do in my case. I bought my Asus N56VZ several months ago, and it came with Windows 7 and bunch of bloatwares that I don't like, so I re-install windows 7 (I don't remember how did I do it). Afterward, I saw an offer to upgrade to Windows 8 Pro, then I decided to upgrade, then I have Windows 8 Pro in my Asus at the moment.Yesterday, I was going to install LinuxMint 13 which is based on Ubuntu 12.04, and I want dual boot after installing it. So with my little experience, I divided my HDD as below:http://img837.imageshack.us/img837/8458/screenshotfrom201305191.pngThen without paying attention to 2 partitions: /dev/sda1 with flag boot and /dev/sad2 with flag msftres, I went ahead to install it as I used to install old versions of Ubuntu before, but after a few steps, I got this message: The partition table format in use on your disks normally requires you to create a separate partition for boot loader code. This partition should be marked for use as a Reserved BIOS boot area and should be at least 1MB in size. Note that this is not the same as a partition mounted on /boot. It got me very confused since I really don't want to reinstall my Windows 8 because of any stupid mistake, I have a lot of software on it that I don't want to reinstall and reconfigure. I've google for a while but couldn't be sure about something, so anyone please tell me:What do boot and msftres partition do?And how should I proceed with the above message to get dual boot (Windows 8 and LinuxMint 13) after installing?
Dual boot windows 8 and Linux Mint 13 (based on Ubuntu 12.04)
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