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-<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xmlns:ns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xmlns:ns3="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:ns4="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:ns42="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:ns5="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" version="5.0" xml:id="setupBootloader">
- <!---->
- <!--Lebarhon 2015 07 04 Project for Mageia 5. The UEFI and BIOS systems are so different I think it is better to split the page
-
+<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xmlns:ns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xmlns:ns3="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:ns4="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:ns42="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:ns5="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xreflabel="Bootloader" version="5.0" xml:id="setupBootloader">
+ <!--Lebarhon 2015 07 04 Project for Mageia 5. The UEFI and BIOS systems are so different I think it is better to split the page
Lebarhon 2016 12 16 updated for Mageia 6. 20170209 updated SC-->
+ <!--2018/02/06 apb: Modified the layout for a (hopefully) easier flow. Also commented-out setupBootloaderAddEntry (was section 24) and incorporated it here, at the end of this file.-->
+ <!--2018/02/22 apb: Changed list styles.-->
+ <!--2018/02/22 apb: Changed 'Advanced' list style.-->
+ <!--2018/02/24 apb: Changed main list style.-->
+ <!--2018/02/25 apb: Added xreflabel to this section.-->
<info>
- <title xml:id="setupBootloader-ti1">Bootloader main options</title>
+ <title xml:id="setupBootloader-ti1">Bootloader</title>
</info>
<section>
- <title>Bootloader interface</title>
- <para>By default, Mageia uses exclusively:</para>
+ <title>Grub2</title>
<itemizedlist>
+ <title>Grub2 on Legacy MBR/GPT systems</title>
<listitem>
- <para>GRUB2 (with or without graphical menu) for a Legacy/MBR or
- Legacy/GPT system</para>
+ <para>GRUB2 (with or without graphical menu) will be used exclusively
+ as the bootloader for a Legacy/MBR or Legacy/GPT system.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <para>GRUB2-efi for a UEFI system.</para>
+ <para>By default, a new bootloader will be written into either the MBR
+ (Master Boot Record) of your first hard drive or in the BIOS boot
+ partition.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
- <tip>
- <para>The Mageia graphical menus are nice :)</para>
- </tip>
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <title>Grub2-efi on UEFI systems</title>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>GRUB2-efi will be used exclusively as the bootloader for a UEFI
+ system.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>By default, a new bootloader (Grub2-efi) will be written into
+ the ESP (EFI System Partition).</para>
+ <para>If there are already UEFI-based operating systems installed on
+ your computer (Windows 8 for example), the Mageia installer will
+ detect the existing ESP created by Windows and add grub2-efi to it. If
+ no ESP exists, then one will be created. Although it is possible to
+ have several ESPs, only one is required, whatever the number of
+ operating systems you have.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </section>
+ <section>
+ <info>
+ <title xml:id="setupBootloader-ti2">Bootloader Setup</title>
+ </info>
<section>
- <title>GRUB2 on Legacy/MBR and Legacy/GPT systems</title>
+ <title>Bootloader main options</title>
<mediaobject>
<imageobject condition="classical">
- <imagedata fileref="dx2-setupBootloader.png" align="center"/>
+ <imagedata align="center" fileref="dx2-setupBootloader.png"/>
</imageobject>
+
<imageobject condition="live">
- <imagedata xml:id="setupBootloader-im1" fileref="live-setupBootloader.png"/>
+ <imagedata fileref="live-setupBootloader.png"
+ xml:id="setupBootloader-im1"/>
</imageobject>
</mediaobject>
- <para>Don't modify the <emphasis role="bold">Boot Device</emphasis>
- unless you really know what you are doing.</para>
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para><emphasis role="bold">Bootloader to use</emphasis></para>
+ <para>This feature is only available to Legacy MBR/BIOS systems.
+ Users of UEFI systems will not see this option here.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para><emphasis role="bold">Boot device</emphasis></para>
+ <para>Don't change this unless you really know what you are
+ doing</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para><emphasis role="bold">Delay before booting the default
+ image</emphasis></para>
+ <para>This text box lets you set a delay, in seconds, before the
+ default operating system is started up.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para><emphasis role="bold">Security</emphasis></para>
+ <para>This allows you to set a password for the bootloader. This
+ means a username and password will be required when booting in order
+ to select a booting entry or change settings. This is optional, and
+ most people are not likely to have a need for it. The username is
+ <literal>root</literal> and the password is the one chosen
+ hereafter.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para><emphasis role="bold">Password</emphasis></para>
+ <para>Choose a password for the bootloader (optional)</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para><emphasis role="bold">Password (again)</emphasis></para>
+ <para>Retype the password and DrakX will check that it matches with
+ the one set above</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ <para><emphasis>Advanced</emphasis></para>
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para><emphasis>Enable ACPI</emphasis></para>
+ <para>ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface) is a
+ standard for power management. It can save energy by stopping unused
+ devices. Deselecting it could be useful if, for example, your
+ computer does not support ACPI or if you think the ACPI
+ implementation might cause some problems (for instance random
+ reboots or system lockups).</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para><emphasis>Enable SMP</emphasis></para>
+ <para>This option enables/disables symmetric multiprocessing for
+ multi-core processors</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para><emphasis>Enable APIC</emphasis></para>
+ <para>Enabling this gives the operating system access to the
+ Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller. APIC devices permit more
+ complex priority models, and Advanced IRQ (Interrupt Request)
+ management.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para><emphasis>Enable Local APIC</emphasis></para>
+ <para>Here you can set Local APIC, which manages all external
+ interrupts for a specific processor in an SMP system</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
</section>
<section>
- <title>GRUB2-efi on UEFI systems</title>
- <para>With a UEFI system, the user interface is slightly different as you cannot choose between the <emphasis role="bold">with</emphasis> or
- <emphasis role="bold">without graphical menu</emphasis> options.</para>
+ <title>Bootloader Configuration</title>
<mediaobject>
- <imageobject condition="classical">
- <imagedata fileref="dx2-setupBootloader2.png" align="center"/>
- </imageobject>
- <imageobject condition="live">
- <imagedata fileref="live-setupBootloader2.png"/>
- </imageobject>
- </mediaobject>
- <para>If Mageia is the only system installed on your computer, the
- installer created an ESP (EFI System Partition) to house the bootloader
- (GRUB2-efi). If there are already UEFI operating systems installed on
- your computer (Windows 8 for example), the Mageia installer detects the
- existing ESP created by Windows and adds GRUB2-efi. Although it is
- possible to have several ESPs, only one is required (and advised),
- whatever the number of operating systems you have.</para>
- <para>Don't modify the <emphasis role="bold">Boot Device</emphasis>
- unless you really know what you are doing.</para>
- </section>
- </section>
- <section>
- <title xml:id="setupMageiaBootloader">Using a Mageia bootloader</title>
- <para>By default, and according to your system, Mageia writes one of the
- following:</para>
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para>a GRUB2 bootloader either into the MBR (Master Boot Record) of
- your first hard drive or in the BIOS boot partition.</para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>a GRUB2-efi bootloader into the ESP</para>
- </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
- <para>If you already have other operating systems installed, Mageia
- attempts to add them to your new Mageia boot menu. If you don't want this
- behaviour, click on <guibutton>Next</guibutton> and then untick the
- <emphasis role="bold">Probe Foreign OS</emphasis> option.</para>
- <mediaobject>
<imageobject condition="classical">
<imagedata align="center" fileref="dx2-setupBootloader3.png"/>
</imageobject>
+
<imageobject condition="live">
- <imagedata fileref="live-setupBootloader3.png" align="center"/>
+ <imagedata align="center" fileref="live-setupBootloader3.png"/>
</imageobject>
</mediaobject>
- </section>
- <section>
- <title>Using an existing bootloader</title>
- <para>The exact procedure for adding your Mageia system to an existing
- bootloader is beyond the scope of this documentation, however in most
- cases it will involve running the relevant bootloader installation program
- which should detect and add it automatically. See the documentation for
- the operating system in question.</para>
- </section>
- <section>
- <title xml:id="setupChainLoading">Using chain loading</title>
- <para>If you don't want a bootable Mageia, but to chain-load it from
- another OS, click on <guibutton>Next</guibutton>, then on
- <guibutton>Advanced</guibutton> and tick the box <guilabel>Do not touch
- ESP or MBR</guilabel>.</para>
- <mediaobject>
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para><emphasis role="bold">Default</emphasis></para>
+ <para>The operating system to started up by default</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para><emphasis role="bold">Append</emphasis></para>
+ <para>This option lets you pass information to the kernel or tell
+ the kernel to give you more information as it boots</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para><emphasis role="bold">Probe foreign OS</emphasis></para>
+ <para>If you already have other operating systems installed, Mageia
+ attempts to add them to your new Mageia boot menu. If you don't want
+ this behaviour, then untick the Probe Foreign OS option.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ <para><emphasis>Advanced</emphasis></para>
+ <mediaobject>
<imageobject condition="classical">
- <imagedata fileref="dx2-setupBootloader4.png" align="center"/>
+ <imagedata align="center" fileref="dx2-setupBootloader4.png"/>
</imageobject>
+
<imageobject condition="live">
- <imagedata fileref="live-setupBootloader4.png" align="center"/>
- </imageobject>
- </mediaobject>
- <para>You will get a warning that the bootloader is missing, ignore it by
- clicking <guibutton>OK</guibutton>.</para>
- <mediaobject>
- <imageobject>
- <imagedata fileref="live-setupBootloader5.png"/>
+ <imagedata align="center" fileref="live-setupBootloader4.png"/>
</imageobject>
</mediaobject>
- </section>
- <section>
- <title>Options</title>
- <section>
- <title>First page</title>
- <para><itemizedlist><listitem><para><guilabel>Delay before booting the default image</guilabel>:
- This lets you set a delay in seconds before the default operating
- system is started up.</para></listitem><listitem><para><guilabel>Security</guilabel>: This allows you to set a
- password for the bootloader. This means a username and password
- will be required when booting to select a booting entry or change
- settings. The username is <emphasis role="bold">root</emphasis> and the password is the one chosen here-after.</para></listitem><listitem><para><guilabel>Password</guilabel>: Choose a password for the
- bootloader.</para></listitem><listitem><para><guilabel>Password (again)</guilabel>: Retype the password
- and DrakX will check that it matches with the one above.</para></listitem><listitem><para><guilabel>Advanced</guilabel></para><itemizedlist><listitem><para><guilabel>Enable ACPI:</guilabel> ACPI (Advanced
- Configuration and Power Interface) is a standard for power
- management. It can save energy by stopping unused devices.
- Deselecting it could be useful if, for example, your computer
- does not support ACPI or if you think the ACPI implementation
- might cause some problems (for instance random reboots or
- system lockups).</para></listitem><listitem><para><guilabel>Enable SMP</guilabel>: This option
- enables/disables symmetric multiprocessing for multi core
- processors.</para></listitem><listitem><para><guilabel>Enable APIC</guilabel>: This gives the
- operating system access to the Advanced Programmable Interrupt
- Controller. APIC devices permit more complex priority models,
- and Advanced IRQ (Interrupt Request) management.</para></listitem><listitem><para><guilabel>Enable Local APIC</guilabel>: Local APIC
- manages all external interrupts for a specific processor in an
- SMP system.</para></listitem></itemizedlist></listitem></itemizedlist></para>
- </section>
- <section>
- <title>Next page</title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
- <para><guilabel>Default:</guilabel> Operating system started up by
- default</para>
+ <para><emphasis>Video mode</emphasis></para>
+ <para>This sets the screen size and colour depth to be used by the
+ boot menu. If you click the down-triangle you will be offered other
+ size and colour depth options.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <para><guilabel>Append:</guilabel> This option lets you pass the
- kernel information or tell the kernel to give you more information
- as it boots.</para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para><guilabel>Probe foreign OS</guilabel>: see above <link linkend="setupMageiaBootloader">Using a Mageia
- bootloader</link></para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para><guilabel>Advanced</guilabel><itemizedlist><listitem><para><guilabel>Video mode:</guilabel> This sets the screen
- size and colour depth to be used by the boot menu. If you
- click the down triangle you will be offered other size and
- colour depth options.</para></listitem><listitem><para><emphasis role="bold">Do not touch ESP or
- MBR</emphasis>: see above <link linkend="setupChainLoading">Using the chain
- loading</link></para></listitem></itemizedlist></para>
+ <para><emphasis>Do not touch ESP or MBR</emphasis></para>
+ <para>Select this option if you don't want a bootable Mageia, but
+ would rather chain-load it from another OS. You will get a warning
+ that the bootloader is missing. Click<emphasis> Ok</emphasis> if you
+ are sure you understand the implications, and wish to
+ proceed.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
+ <mediaobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata fileref="live-setupBootloader5.png" align="center"/>
+ </imageobject>
+ </mediaobject>
+ </section>
+ </section>
+ <section>
+ <title>Other Options</title>
+ <section>
+ <title>Using an existing bootloader</title>
+ <para>The exact procedure for adding Mageia to an existing bootloader is
+ beyond the scope of this documentation. However in most cases it will
+ involve running the relevant bootloader installation program, which
+ should detect Mageia and automatically add an entry for it in the
+ bootloader menu. See the documentation for the relevant operating
+ system.</para>
+ </section>
+ <section>
+ <title>Installing Without a Bootloader</title>
+ <para>While you can opt to install Mageia without a bootloader (see
+ section 2.1 Advanced), this is not recommended unless you absolutely
+ know what you are doing, as without some form of bootloader your
+ operating system will be unable to start.</para>
+ </section>
+ <section>
+ <title>Add or Modify a Boot Menu Entry</title>
+ <para>To do this you need to manually edit
+ <filename>/boot/grub2/custom.cfg</filename> or use the software
+ <application>grub-customizer</application> tool instead (available in
+ the Mageia repositories).</para>
+ <note>
+ <para>For more information, see: <link ns4:href="https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Grub2-efi_and_Mageia">https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Grub2-efi_and_Mageia</link></para>
+ </note>
</section>
</section>
</section> \ No newline at end of file