[Mageia-discuss] UEFI and Secure Boot

Maurice Batey maurice at bcs.org.uk
Tue Aug 21 16:23:41 CEST 2012


On Tue, 21 Aug 2012 21:42:01 +0800, Goh Lip wrote:

> But you *can* have UEFI enabled and still boot linux OS's (but that 
> requires grub2 and not grub-legacy). *And* you need gpt partitioning 
> instead of msdos.

   OIC.. So with UEFI Boot Support disabled, one does
not get the benefits of UEFI - whatever they may be.

> And in no way it says anything about 'secure boot' which the Free 
> Software Foundation aptly calls 'restricted boot'.

  That's right - no mention of 'Secure/Restricted  Boot'.
      It came with Windows 7 installed, by the way.

Am about to install Mageia-2 alongside it, using Clonezilla to back up
the Windows partition, Gparted to sort the partitions out, and the
Mageia-2 install DVD.iso - all set up on USB flash drives (as no optical
drive on netbook).

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/\/\aurice 
	



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