[Mageia-dev] Booting on GPT + UEFI + Secure Boot...

Mon Jan 7 14:41:39 CET 2013

* Pascal Terjan (pterjan at gmail.com) wrote:
+> On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 11:31 AM, Olivier Thauvin
+> <nanardon at nanardon.zarb.org> wrote:
+> > Hello again,
+> >
+> > I just buy a wonderfull HP ENVY23 smartscreen.
+> >
+> > It has:
+> > - Windows 8 (I'd like to keep it)
+> > - GPT Formated disk (2T)
+> > - UEFI
+> > - SecureBoot
+> >
+> > I am trying to install a Mageia on it:
+> > I disabled secure boot.
+> > I succeed to boot using PXE (using legacy boot) and to install mageia2,
+> > but it failed to boot on Mageia using legacy boot.
+> 
+> Do you know how it fails?
+
+The "Bios" claim the disk is not bootable and it switch to the next
+device (network card or UEFI/windows 8).
+
+> 
+> > So questions:
+> > - is it possible to boot Mageia using legacy boot on GPT disk ?
+> 
+> Yes (using grub, not lilo)
+
+It's the case, but it's not working.
+
+I did try in rescue mode to reinstall grub but it failed with "hd0 not
+found".
+
+> 
+> > - is it possible to boot Mageia using UEFI ?
+> 
+> I think so but I have never tried. I remember someone reporting success.
+
+I'll seek archives then.
+
+-- 
+
+Olivier Thauvin
+CNRS  -  LATMOS
+♖ ♘ ♗ ♕ ♔ ♗ ♘ ♖
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