[Mageia-discuss] UEFI and Secure Boot

[blind Pete]

Maurice Batey wrote:

> On Tue, 21 Aug 2012 21:31:56 +0300, Thomas Backlund wrote:
> 
>> If you dont need windows 7, then it's probably easier to disable
>> uefi (if you can) and do a "old style" install.
> 
>   The only 'UEFI' part of the BIOS Setup is the one I described
> earlier:
> 
>       "UEFI Boot support:
> 'Enabled':  System boots Legacy OS and UEFI OS
> 'Disabled': System boots Legacy OS only"
> 
> It is Disabled, but I don't know yet if the drive has GPT or legacy
> partitioning.
>   So the $64 question is:
> 
>   If I ask the Mageia-2 DVD.iso installer to install on this drive, will
> it only be able to do it if it does *not* have GPT partitions, or -
> (if I invite it to take over the whole drive) will it be able to install
> if it is GPT, or - if not - will it be able to format the whole drive as
> non-GPT and then install?
> 
> I kniow that's a lot of questions, but I hope you can see what I'm
> getting at!

Put the dvd in the drive and find out.  

Recently I installed Mageia 2 onto a PIII with a GPTed disk.  The 
installer only gave the options of reformatting the whole disk or 
using the partitions already defined.  I don't remember whether or 
not it was a hybrid partition table.  


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blind Pete
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