Základní nastavení zaváděcího programu
With a Bios system
If you prefer different bootloader settings to those chosen automatically by
the installer, you can change them here.
You may already have another operating system on your machine, in which case
you need to decide whether to add Mageia to your existing bootloader, or
allow Mageia to create a new one.
The Mageia graphical menus are nice :
Using a Mageia bootloader
By default, Mageia writes a new GRUB (legacy) bootloader into the MBR
(Master Boot Record) of your first hard drive. If you already have other
operating systems installed, Mageia attempts to add them to your new Mageia
boot menu.
Mageia now also offers GRUB2 as an optional bootloader in addition to GRUB
legacy and Lilo.
Linux systems which use the GRUB2 bootloader are not currently supported by
GRUB (legacy) and will not be recognized if the default GRUB bootloader is
used.
The best solution here is to use the GRUB2 bootloader which is available at
the Summary page during installation.
Using an existing bootloader
If you decide to use an existing bootloader then you will need to remember
to STOP at the summary page during the installation and click the Bootloader
Configure button, which will allow you to change the
bootloader install location.
Do not select a device e.g."sda", or you will overwrite your existing
MBR. You must select the root partition that you chose during the
partitioning phase earlier, e.g. sda7.
To be clear, sda is a device, sda7 is a partition on that device.
Go to tty2 with Ctrl+Alt+F2 and type df to check where
your / (root) partition is. Ctrl+Alt+F7 takes you back to
the installer screen.
The exact procedure for adding your Mageia system to an existing bootloader
is beyond the scope of this help, 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.
Bootloader advanced option
If you have very limited disk space for the / partition
that contains /tmp, click on
Advanced and check the box for Clean /tmp
at each boot. This helps to maintain some free space.
With an UEFI system
With an UEFI system, the user interface is slightly different as you cannot
choose the boot loader since only Grub2-efi is available.
If Mageia is the first system installed on your computer, the installer
created an ESP (EFI System Partition) to receive the bootloader
(Grub2-efi). If there was already UEFI operating systems previously
installed on your computer (Windows 8 for example), the Mageia installer
detected the existing ESP created by Windows and added grub2-efi. Although
it is possible to have several ESPs, only one is advised and enough whatever
the number of operating systems you have.
Don't modify the "Boot Device" unless really knowing what you do.