[Mageia-discuss] UEFI and Secure Boot

[Jim Whitby]

On 08/22/2012 12:25 PM, Maurice Batey wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 12:52:46 +0800, Goh Lip wrote:
>
>> UEFI *requires* 64 bits.
> Are you saying that - even if I give the Mageia-2 installer the whole
> drive to play with - I still need to install 64-bit Mageia rather than
> 32-bit?
>
> No problem for me (I have a copy of the 64-bit .iso), but I hadn't
> thought it appropriate to install 64-bit on a 2GB RAM netwbook!
>
> But why does UEFI mandate 64-bit?
>
Not required, unless you using are  Windows according to this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table

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Mageia release 2 (Official) for x86_64
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