>> And that might well be your problem. UEFI doesn't use the boot block *at
>> all* during the boot process; it uses its own completely new system of
>> booting...
>
> So I found out.
>
> Does message ring a bell?
>
> Windows cannot be installed on this disk. The selected disk is of the
> GPT partition style.

The whole thing should eventually make everybody's lives *easier*. GPT 
is much simpler and more sane than the existing MBR nonsense. And the 
EFI boot process is much simpler and easier to manage, with a butt-load 
of useful new features.

Trouble is, all this stuff is brand-new. And consequently, a lot of it 
seems to be buggy as hell! I couldn't even get the OpenSUSE installation 
DVD to *boot* on our test laptop until I reflashed the firmware. 
Apparently the firmware it was shipped with doesn't implement half the 
functionality correctly, and it's only once you've updated it that 
things start to work right.

The other sad thing is... EFI offers a whole bunch of new functionality 
that is supposed to make our lives easier. But everybody is only 
bothering to implement the parts of EFI required for Win8 certification. 
(And sometimes not even all of that!) So it looks like all the old hacks 
and workarounds for the BIOS being rubbish are going to be replaced by a 
whole new generation of hacks and workarounds for EFI not being 
implemented properly... *sigh*

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