[Mageia-discuss] UEFI and Secure Boot

[Thomas Backlund]

Goh Lip skrev 21.8.2012 19:52:
> On 08/21/2012 11:41 PM, Maurice Batey wrote:
>> On Tue, 21 Aug 2012 22:48:51 +0800, Goh Lip wrote:
>>
>>> be careful installing on UEFI.
>>
>>    UEFI is  Disabled at the moment, and as I have no intention of
>> Enabling it presumably none of the problems you point to applies.
>>
>> An interesting pre-Mageia install question is: If I were to Enable UEFI,
>> who/what will re-organise the current Windows 7 installation as you
>> describe to suit, and when?!
>>
>
>
> Maurice,
>
> [1] GPT partitioning -
> Most likely, your disk is GPT partitioned and windows 7 installed on it
> with at least 2 partitions (one for boot and probably one more for
> recovery besides the usual OS partition). As mentioned earlier, Windows
> 7 (and Linux) will work on BIOS and GPT partitioning. As for enabling
> UEFI, windows 7 will work without 'redoing' the partitioning (if it is
> already GPT) but you may have to redo the boot (boot.ini? - but I really
> don't know for windows). You can try it out by enabling UEFI and check
> if it boots Windows 7 without any changes.
>
> You can check if your disk is GPT partitioned by booting a livecd and at
> terminal (root), "fdisk -lu" If it is GPT, it will give an error message
> (nothing to worry about, fdisk won't work on GPT, that's all).
>
> [2] Grub-legacy
> First a disclaimer - I have not used grub-legacy for about 5 years, all
> my OS's boots/grubs are 'set' or 'installed' (wrong term, but that's
> what it's being used) to their own partitions, including Mageia's
> grub-legacy boot. And while I've used/tested GPT partitioning using
> BIOS, it is with grub2, not with grub-legacy, I am unsure if Mageia's
> grub-legacy could work with GPT and here's a link to help somewhat..
> http://www.rodsbooks.com/gdisk/bios.html
> http://www.rodsbooks.com/gdisk/booting.html
>

Check this one out:
http://www.rodsbooks.com/efi-bootloaders/grub_legacy.html

That Fedora legacy grub-efi package works, I know, as I'm using it :)

--
Thomas