[Mageia-discuss] UEFI and Secure Boot
Maurice Batey
maurice at bcs.org.uk
Tue Aug 21 20:11:15 CEST 2012
On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 00:52:43 +0800, Goh Lip wrote:
> Most likely, your disk is GPT partitioned and windows 7 installed on it
> with at least 2 partitions (one for boot and probably one more for
> recovery besides the usual OS partition).
If that's the case then I get the feeling that Magiea-2 will not
install alongside Windows7.
Is that true?
If so, then - as I don't really want to use Windows on this netbook -
perhaps the simplest approach for me would be to re-format the whole
disk with a non-GPT setup, and install Mageia-2 on that.
Would that be a workable approach?
Would this 'UEFI' motherboard handle such a disk properly?
(Actually, the more I think about that, the more I like it, as it
avoids the problem of adjusting the existng Windows partitions to make
space for Mageia without disturbing their disk-letter relationship.
Which tool would be best suited to do that?)
I have already (using Clonezilla live) taken an image copy of the
whole drive, so if things get messed up I can restore back to the
original.
By the way, I used Gparted-Live to look at the drive. It showed:
/dev/sda1: 400MB "SYSTEM" (Flag='Boot')
/dev/sda2: 280GB
/dev/sda3: 17GB "SAMSUNG-REC" (Flag='Diag")
I could see nothing indication 'GPT' clues.
I've found this all quite depressing, but I do like a challenge, and I
am most grateful to you for your patience and help.
Thank you, Goh!
Regards.
--
/\/\aurice
(Retired in Surrey, UK; only 79)
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