[Mageia-dev] EFI/GPT

[Oliver Burger]

Am 01.03.2013 20:42, schrieb Thomas Backlund:
> Well, technically we already support both, but not OOB with the installer.
>
> If you create gpt partitions with parted, the installer will happily
> install mga on them, and it will boot and run correctly.
Thank your for that answer.

> The efi part can also be managed, but you have some manual work
> to get it to boot properly.
>
> I'm working on making mga3 beta3 live images capable of booting in
> efi mode, and then if it works ok, I'll extend it to normal install
> isos, and then we'll have to see what adaptions need to be done
> in the installer to properly install efi bootloader and we'll be done.
>
>> Can anyone help me?
>> Perhaps it would be good for someone with knowledge about that topic to
>> contact Bernd himself.
>> ixsoft is a major player in that field in Germany...
>
> Well, I do intend to make sure mga3 will boot & install on uefi hw.
>
> (as for secure boot, that I wont ever support)
>
Sounds good. So we aim to support UEFI (without secure boot) for Mga3?
I will forward this to the German forums then...

Oliver

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