[Mageia-discuss] UEFI and Secure Boot
andre999
andre999mga at laposte.net
Thu Aug 23 00:52:55 CEST 2012
Maurice Batey a écrit :
> On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 12:52:46 +0800, Goh Lip wrote:
>
>> It is GPT partitioned.
>
> Belatedly, I have just booted then netbook, and used diskmgmt.msc to
> show me the partition type:
>
> "Partition Style: Master Boot record (MBR)"
>
> which I believe indicates that the drive is *not* GPT-partitioned.
>
> (I'm still trying to find out what it would say for GPT.)
It would say GPT ;) Seriously.
>
> In this case, does it not mean that I could go ahead with a dual-boot
> install of Mageia-2?
If you keep the MBR partition table, making dual-boot is easy enough.
If you want a challenge, you could convert it to GPT (with a hybrid table for
Msw), which I have done several times with Mageia.
>
> (Actually, I've gone off the idea of dual-boot, as I do not intend to
> use W7 on the netbook (I have it on the desktop, dual booted),
> but am tempted to try it just out of curiousity before re-installing
> single boot!)
>
--
André
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