[Mageia-discuss] UEFI and Secure Boot

[Maurice Batey]

On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 00:52:43 +0800, Goh Lip wrote:

> 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).

   If that's the case then I get the feeling that Magiea-2 will not
install alongside Windows7.
   Is that true?

If so, then - as I don't really want to use Windows on this netbook -
perhaps the simplest approach for me would be to re-format the whole
disk with a non-GPT setup, and install Mageia-2 on that.
     Would that be a workable approach?
Would this 'UEFI' motherboard handle such a disk properly?

(Actually, the more I think about that, the more I like it, as it
avoids the problem of adjusting the existng Windows partitions to make
space for Mageia without disturbing their disk-letter relationship.
   Which tool would be best suited to do that?)

 I have already (using Clonezilla live) taken an image copy of the
whole drive, so if things get messed up I can restore back to the
original.

By the way, I used Gparted-Live to look at the drive. It showed:

    /dev/sda1: 400MB   "SYSTEM"  (Flag='Boot')
    /dev/sda2: 280GB  
    /dev/sda3: 17GB     "SAMSUNG-REC" (Flag='Diag")

I could see nothing indication 'GPT' clues.

I've found this all quite depressing, but I do like a challenge, and I
am most grateful to you for your patience and help.
  Thank you, Goh!

Regards.
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/\/\aurice 
	(Retired in Surrey, UK; only 79)