[Mageia-dev] Booting on GPT + UEFI + Secure Boot...
Olivier Thauvin
nanardon at nanardon.zarb.org
Mon Jan 7 14:41:39 CET 2013
* Pascal Terjan (pterjan at gmail.com) wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 11:31 AM, Olivier Thauvin
> <nanardon at nanardon.zarb.org> wrote:
> > Hello again,
> >
> > I just buy a wonderfull HP ENVY23 smartscreen.
> >
> > It has:
> > - Windows 8 (I'd like to keep it)
> > - GPT Formated disk (2T)
> > - UEFI
> > - SecureBoot
> >
> > I am trying to install a Mageia on it:
> > I disabled secure boot.
> > I succeed to boot using PXE (using legacy boot) and to install mageia2,
> > but it failed to boot on Mageia using legacy boot.
>
> Do you know how it fails?
The "Bios" claim the disk is not bootable and it switch to the next
device (network card or UEFI/windows 8).
>
> > So questions:
> > - is it possible to boot Mageia using legacy boot on GPT disk ?
>
> Yes (using grub, not lilo)
It's the case, but it's not working.
I did try in rescue mode to reinstall grub but it failed with "hd0 not
found".
>
> > - is it possible to boot Mageia using UEFI ?
>
> I think so but I have never tried. I remember someone reporting success.
I'll seek archives then.
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Olivier Thauvin
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