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2012/8/21 Thomas Backlund <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tmb@mageia.org" target="_blank">tmb@mageia.org</a>></span><br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Maurice Batey skrev 21.8.2012 21:11:<div><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 00:52:43 +0800, Goh Lip wrote:<br>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Most likely, your disk is GPT partitioned and windows 7 installed on it<br>
with at least 2 partitions (one for boot and probably one more for<br>
recovery besides the usual OS partition).<br>
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If that's the case then I get the feeling that Magiea-2 will not<br>
install alongside Windows7.<br>
Is that true?<br>
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</blockquote>
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Nope, installing it alongside is not a problem.<br>
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The thing that is missing is a efi capable bootloader<br>
(wich is why I used the fedora grub-efi from<br>
<a href="http://www.rodsbooks.com/efi-bootloaders/grub_legacy.html" target="_blank">http://www.rodsbooks.com/efi-<u></u>bootloaders/grub_legacy.html</a>)<div><br>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
If so, then - as I don't really want to use Windows on this netbook -<br>
perhaps the simplest approach for me would be to re-format the whole<br>
disk with a non-GPT setup, and install Mageia-2 on that.<br>
Would that be a workable approach?<br>
Would this 'UEFI' motherboard handle such a disk properly?<br>
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If you dont need windows 7, then it's probably easier to disable<br>
uefi (if you can) and do a "old style" install.<br>
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--<br>
<br>
Thomas<br>
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<br>
</blockquote></div><br>From my general experience with ASUS Sabertooth 990FX, the motherboard I use to write this:<br><br>Contrary to myth, there's no problems with GRUB Legacy or GRUB2, and MS-DOS-type partitions on (U)EFI.<br>
GPT will also create a hybrid structure, so the disks should go straight into older systems, and work. <br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Olav Dahlum<br><br>PGP key ID: 0xA6BD1795<br><br>
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