[Mageia-discuss] UEFI and Secure Boot

[Anne Wilson]

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On 22/08/12 14:27, blind Pete wrote:
> Maurice Batey wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, 21 Aug 2012 21:31:56 +0300, Thomas Backlund wrote:
>> 
>>> If you dont need windows 7, then it's probably easier to
>>> disable uefi (if you can) and do a "old style" install.
>> 
>> The only 'UEFI' part of the BIOS Setup is the one I described 
>> earlier:
>> 
>> "UEFI Boot support: 'Enabled':  System boots Legacy OS and UEFI
>> OS 'Disabled': System boots Legacy OS only"
>> 
>> It is Disabled, but I don't know yet if the drive has GPT or
>> legacy partitioning. So the $64 question is:
>> 
>> If I ask the Mageia-2 DVD.iso installer to install on this drive,
>> will it only be able to do it if it does *not* have GPT
>> partitions, or - (if I invite it to take over the whole drive)
>> will it be able to install if it is GPT, or - if not - will it be
>> able to format the whole drive as non-GPT and then install?
>> 
>> I kniow that's a lot of questions, but I hope you can see what
>> I'm getting at!
> 
> Put the dvd in the drive and find out.
> 
> Recently I installed Mageia 2 onto a PIII with a GPTed disk.  The 
> installer only gave the options of reformatting the whole disk or 
> using the partitions already defined.  I don't remember whether or
>  not it was a hybrid partition table.
> 
Until you actually write the partition table to disk (and you are told
when it is about to do so) you can always back out, so yes, see what
is offered and make your decision accordingly.

Anne

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