[Mageia-discuss] UEFI and Secure Boot

andre999 andre999mga at laposte.net
Thu Aug 23 00:36:23 CEST 2012


Maurice Batey a écrit :
> On Tue, 21 Aug 2012 16:51:18 -0400, Charles A Edwards wrote:
>
>>   All will boot stand-alone Linux installations
>
>    Do you mean not dual-boot, i.e. taking over the whole drive?
> problem trying for dual boot?
>

You should have no problem dual-booting.
UEFI boards require gpt partitions, so the windows 7 should be using gpt 
partition(s), even if not in UEFI mode.

(You might want to verify.  In superuser mode, simply list disk parameters with :
  fdisk -l
If gpt, it will give an error message saying that fdisk doesn't support gpt.)

Mageia has no problem with gpt, I've been using it for over 2 years, starting 
with Mandriva, then Mageia.  (We use the same legacy grub patched for gpt.)
Even dual-booting with a non-gpt-aware version of Msw is a bit tricky, but doable.
(I've set up dual-boot with a non-gpt-aware version of windows 7.)

-- 
André


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