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Dual Boot Lenovo X1 Carbon - Windows 7 Fedora 18

Lenovo sent me a Recovery Media Kit - so, I decided to reinnstall Windows 7 Pro to see if their installation would resolve an issue I have been having with the SD card reader.

Boot the system and press Enter to Interrupt Normal Boot.
Press F1 to enter the BIOS, configure the Boot Options (under Startup) to boot Legacy first (this is only for the Windows Installation - as I could not get the Recovery Media to boot with UEFI)
Boot from the Disc 1 of 1 from Set 1 and follow the prompts.  If/when it asks, select GPT for your disk.
Remove the last 2 partitions on your disk (right-click My Computer, select Manage | Disk Manager)
Once the Windows Installation has completed, shut the machine down.

Boot the system and press Enter to Interrupt Normal Boot
Press F1 to enter the BIOS, configure the Boot Options (under Startup) to boot UEFI only, then change the Boot Order to boot the USB CD first
Reboot the system

The Fedora 18 installer can be a bit tricky (I'm not exactly a fan, personally)
You have to follow the disk partitioning in a particular order.

Click on Installation Destination
  Let me customize the partitioning of the disks instead

/boot/efi - sda1
/boot      - sda4
/             - lvm
/home     - lvm
<swap>  - lvm

Click on sda1 (EFI system partition)
  on the right, update the mountpoint to be /boot/efi
  click Apply Changes

Click the + symbol and add /boot (200MB)
-- this should create a sda4


Click the + symbol and add / (15000MB)
-- This should default to use LVM.  I click on the new mount point and update the VG name (simply a preference)

Click the + symbol and add swap (8000MB)
Click the + symbol and add /home (leave the size blank - it will auto-populate the remainder of the disk)

Add the refind rpm and update the BIOS to boot to refind.





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