[Mageia-discuss] UEFI and Secure Boot

Tue Aug 21 21:31:31 CEST 2012

On Tue, 21 Aug 2012 21:31:56 +0300, Thomas Backlund wrote:
+
+> If you dont need windows 7, then it's probably easier to disable
+> uefi (if you can) and do a "old style" install.
+
+  The only 'UEFI' part of the BIOS Setup is the one I described
+earlier:
+
+      "UEFI Boot support:
+	    'Enabled':  System boots Legacy OS and UEFI OS
+	    'Disabled': System boots Legacy OS only"
+
+It is Disabled, but I don't know yet if the drive has GPT or legacy
+partitioning.
+  So the $64 question is:
+
+  If I ask the Mageia-2 DVD.iso installer to install on this drive, will
+it only be able to do it if it does *not* have GPT partitions, or - 
+(if I invite it to take over the whole drive) will it be able to install
+if it is GPT, or - if not - will it be able to format the whole drive as
+non-GPT and then install?
+
+I kniow that's a lot of questions, but I hope you can see what I'm
+getting at!
+
+-- 
+/\/\aurice 
+	(Retired in Surrey, UK)    
+
+