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diff --git a/zarb-ml/mageia-discuss/20120423/007094.html b/zarb-ml/mageia-discuss/20120423/007094.html new file mode 100644 index 000000000..70024da38 --- /dev/null +++ b/zarb-ml/mageia-discuss/20120423/007094.html @@ -0,0 +1,117 @@ +<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> +<HTML> + <HEAD> + <TITLE> [Mageia-discuss] UEFI + </TITLE> + <LINK REL="Index" HREF="index.html" > + <LINK REL="made" HREF="mailto:mageia-discuss%40mageia.org?Subject=Re%3A%20%5BMageia-discuss%5D%20UEFI&In-Reply-To=%3C4F955F0F.2020301%40bendbroadband.com%3E"> + <META NAME="robots" CONTENT="index,nofollow"> + <META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> + <LINK REL="Previous" HREF="007092.html"> + <LINK REL="Next" HREF="007096.html"> + </HEAD> + <BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff"> + <H1>[Mageia-discuss] UEFI</H1> + <B>Thomas C Gilliard</B> + <A HREF="mailto:mageia-discuss%40mageia.org?Subject=Re%3A%20%5BMageia-discuss%5D%20UEFI&In-Reply-To=%3C4F955F0F.2020301%40bendbroadband.com%3E" + TITLE="[Mageia-discuss] UEFI">satellit at bendbroadband.com + </A><BR> + <I>Mon Apr 23 15:54:23 CEST 2012</I> + <P><UL> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="007092.html">[Mageia-discuss] UEFI +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="007096.html">[Mageia-discuss] UEFI +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#7094">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#7094">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#7094">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#7094">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + <HR> +<!--beginarticle--> +<PRE> + +On 04/23/2012 05:33 AM, Doug Laidlaw wrote: +><i> On Mon, 23 Apr 2012 12:00:02 +0200 +</I>><i> <A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">mageia-discuss-request at mageia.org</A> wrote: +</I>><i> +</I>>><i> According to wikipedia, linux has been able to boot EFI since the +</I>>><i> year 2000. Mageia (and Mandriva before) supports GPT (the partition +</I>>><i> tables used on UEFI disks) on MBR disks, since I've been using that +</I>>><i> for well over a year. More info at <A HREF="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/UEFI">http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/UEFI</A> +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> Grub supports GPT since version 1.97 patched for GPT (which +</I>>><i> Mageia/Mandriva used), and on versions 2.x and up. +</I>>><i> Lilo may not work with EFI, but there is Elilo. +</I>>><i> <A HREF="http://elilo.sourceforge.net/">http://elilo.sourceforge.net/</A> +</I>>><i> (The last release in 2007) +</I>>><i> The 2,2TB limit is for MBR disks. EFI and Linux support much higher +</I>>><i> limits. +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> Initially there were some problems with diskdrake, but I think that +</I>>><i> they have been solved. (The workaround for formatting partitions on +</I>>><i> disks with GPT partition tables was using gparted.) +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> Regards +</I>>><i> +</I>><i> One minor distro I tried recently uses GPT by default, but it seems to +</I>><i> have its own limitations, e.g. won't run on a USB key. From what I +</I>><i> read, MS were going to have a bootloader that locked everything else +</I>><i> out. +</I>><i> +</I>FYI: + +Fedora 17 Beta uses GPT. and sucessfully boots Live USB's in recent +tests I have done. + +1-)Full install of a live .iso to a 8 GB USB; use fedora disk utility +to format: Custom install: GPT(boot) 2; /boot 500; / balance of the USB +no swap. + +2-) dd write (to 2 GB USB) also works for the live .iso's + dd if=Fedora-17-Beta-x86_64-Live-Desktop.iso of=/dev/sdb bs=2M + +3-)EFI USB's that boot on a MacBookPro i7 + ./tools_livecd-iso-to-disk.sh --format --efi --overlay-size-mb 300 +--home-size-mb 175 --delete-home --unencrypted-home +Fedora-17-Beta-x86_64-Live-Desktop.iso /dev/sdb1 + +[1]<A HREF="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_and_use_Live_USB#Run_livecd-iso-to-disk_script">http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_and_use_Live_USB#Run_livecd-iso-to-disk_script</A> +Source of script: +[2]<A HREF="http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/?p=hosted/livecd;a=blob;f=tools/livecd-iso-to-disk.sh;hb=HEAD">http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/?p=hosted/livecd;a=blob;f=tools/livecd-iso-to-disk.sh;hb=HEAD</A> + +Tom Gilliard +satellit_ +><i> I decided to look at Macintosh a few days ago, and found that it won't +</I>><i> run on an AMD processor. Then there was Windows Service Pack 3 which +</I>><i> caused problems except for Intels. My supplier said to ignore SP3 +</I>><i> anyway. There seem to be a lot of schemes to lock you into hardware, +</I>><i> and they aren't all Windows. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Doug. +</I>><i> +</I></PRE> + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="007092.html">[Mageia-discuss] UEFI +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="007096.html">[Mageia-discuss] UEFI +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#7094">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#7094">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#7094">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#7094">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">More information about the Mageia-discuss +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |