[Mageia-discuss] UEFI and Secure Boot

Tue Aug 21 22:51:18 CEST 2012

On Tue, 21 Aug 2012 20:04:57 +0300
+Thomas Backlund wrote:
+
+> >>    UEFI is  Disabled at the moment, and as I have no intention of
+> >> Enabling it presumably none of the problems you point to applies.
+> >>
+> >> An interesting pre-Mageia install question is: If I were to Enable
+> >> UEFI, who/what will re-organise the current Windows 7 installation
+> >> as you describe to suit, and when?!
+> >>  
+> >
+> >
+> > Maurice,
+> >
+> > [1] GPT partitioning -
+> > Most likely, your disk is GPT partitioned and windows 7 installed
+> > on it with at least 2 partitions (one for boot and probably one
+> > more for recovery besides the usual OS partition). As mentioned
+> > earlier, Windows 7 (and Linux) will work on BIOS and GPT
+> > partitioning. As for enabling UEFI, windows 7 will work without
+> > 'redoing' the partitioning (if it is already GPT) but you may have
+> > to redo the boot (boot.ini? - but I really don't know for windows).
+> > You can try it out by enabling UEFI and check if it boots Windows 7
+> > without any changes.
+> >
+> > You can check if your disk is GPT partitioned by booting a livecd
+> > and at terminal (root), "fdisk -lu" If it is GPT, it will give an
+> > error message (nothing to worry about, fdisk won't work on GPT,
+> > that's all).
+> >
+> > [2] Grub-legacy
+> > First a disclaimer - I have not used grub-legacy for about 5 years,
+> > all my OS's boots/grubs are 'set' or 'installed' (wrong term, but
+> > that's what it's being used) to their own partitions, including
+> > Mageia's grub-legacy boot. And while I've used/tested GPT
+> > partitioning using BIOS, it is with grub2, not with grub-legacy, I
+> > am unsure if Mageia's grub-legacy could work with GPT and here's a
+> > link to help somewhat.. http://www.rodsbooks.com/gdisk/bios.html
+> > http://www.rodsbooks.com/gdisk/booting.html
+> >  
+> 
+> Check this one out:
+> http://www.rodsbooks.com/efi-bootloaders/grub_legacy.html
+> 
+> That Fedora legacy grub-efi package works, I know, as I'm using it :)
+
+
+I have done install on several boards with UEFI; ASUS, Gigibyte, MSI,
+ASrock, and All will boot stand-alone Linux installations Without issue
+using either lilo or grub-0.xx series.
+
+This cauldron system on an ASUS Crosshair V no issues using lilo
+(have at times used grub).
+
+A second system, Mandriva 10.1 on MSI 990FXA no issues using lilo.
+
+
+    Charles
+
+
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