[Mageia-dev] Booting on GPT + UEFI + Secure Boot...

[Barry Jackson]

On 07/01/13 11:36, Pascal Terjan wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 11:31 AM, Olivier Thauvin
> <nanardon at nanardon.zarb.org> wrote:
>> Hello again,
>>
>> I just buy a wonderfull HP ENVY23 smartscreen.
>>
>> It has:
>> - Windows 8 (I'd like to keep it)
>> - GPT Formated disk (2T)
>> - UEFI
>> - SecureBoot
>>
>> I am trying to install a Mageia on it:
>> I disabled secure boot.
>> I succeed to boot using PXE (using legacy boot) and to install mageia2,
>> but it failed to boot on Mageia using legacy boot.
>
> Do you know how it fails?
>
>> So questions:
>> - is it possible to boot Mageia using legacy boot on GPT disk ?
>
> Yes (using grub, not lilo)
>
>> - is it possible to boot Mageia using UEFI ?
>
> I think so but I have never tried. I remember someone reporting success.
>

The grub2-efi package in Cauldron has a README.efi file that may be 
useful. (Note efibootmgr package referred to is also in Cauldron)
The author of that README file has been using Mageia with grub2-efi on a 
Mac for some time now.