[Mageia-discuss] UEFI and Secure Boot

[Olav Dahlum]

2012/8/21 Thomas Backlund <tmb at mageia.org>

> Maurice Batey skrev 21.8.2012 21:11:
>
>  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?
>>
>>
>
> Nope, installing it alongside is not a problem.
>
> The thing that is missing is a efi capable bootloader
> (wich is why I used the fedora grub-efi from
>  http://www.rodsbooks.com/efi-**bootloaders/grub_legacy.html<http://www.rodsbooks.com/efi-bootloaders/grub_legacy.html>
> )
>
>
>
>  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?
>>
>>
>
> If you dont need windows 7, then it's probably easier to disable
> uefi (if you can) and do a "old style" install.
>
> --
>
> Thomas
>
>
>
>From my general experience with ASUS Sabertooth 990FX, the motherboard I
use to write this:

Contrary to myth, there's no problems with GRUB Legacy or GRUB2, and
MS-DOS-type partitions on (U)EFI.
GPT will also create a hybrid structure, so the disks should go straight
into older systems, and work.

-- 
Olav Dahlum

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