LVM dual-boot windows

Question

Have the following purposed partion schema ----not worried much about the *nix systems booting - however need to be able to have a native boot Win 7 for some teaching / consulting I'll be doing and not terribly familiar with lvm just yet (much better at VM and MBR using an extended partition)

currently via gdisk

Disk /dev/sda: 488397168 sectors, 232.9 GiB
Logical sector size: 512 bytes
Disk identifier (GUID): E26BE449-8A6A-4417-AE21-0AFCAA481CAB
Partition table holds up to 128 entries
First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 488397134
Partitions will be aligned on 2048-sector boundaries
Total free space is 2349 sectors (1.1 MiB)

Number  Start (sector)    End (sector)  Size       Code  Name
   1            2048         1026047   500.0 MiB   8300  
   2         1026048       403458047   191.9 GiB   8E00  
   3       403458048       488396799   40.5 GiB    8E00

attempting to go to -> (have only 2Gb on MOBO and NON-UEFI aware Dell D620 BIOS A10

/dev/sda
sda1 --200M,-Boot,/EFI,FAT32 (hybrid MBR?)
sda2 --256M,-Boot,/boot,EXT2,Petra
sda3 --256M,-Boot,/boot,EXT2,Heisenberg
sda4 --256M,-Boot,/boot,EXT2,Arch
sda5 --256M,-Boot,/boot,EXT2,Win7
sda6 --191G,LVM,EXT4
    VG-(main system)
LV -10G -Petra VG-main
LV -10G -Heisenberg VG-main
LV -10G -Arch VG-main
LV -40G -Win7 VG-main
LV -30G -usr VG-main
LV -91G -home VG-main
sda7, 40G,LVM,EXT4)
    VG-(Oracle VM
LV -10G -VirtualBox Oracle
LV -30G -Virtual-home Oracle
sda8, 15G,LVM,Swap
LV -15G -n Swap VG-main

remarks on any other issues / better schemes I may not see or foresee would be appreciated

score -1 · Accepted Answer · edited Mar 20 '17 at 10:17

You can't install Windows on an LVM logical volume. See: this question.

I'm also not entirely sure why you're talking about UEFI. Windows 7 doesn't need UEFI to work, it's way simpler to set everything up without it, and furthermore you can't just "fake" a UEFI system.

Also, according to this, you cannot boot 32-bit Windows from a GPT partition at all, and 64-bit Windows requires an actual UEFI system to be able to boot from a GPT partition.

Here's what you should do:

Back up any data you care about before messing with your partition table.
Switch to a hybrid GPT/MBR parititon table - see the gdisk man page for details on how to do this.
Create a normal MBR parition for Windows, install it, and then boot it normally with GRUB.

LVM dual-boot windows

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