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   <H1>[Mageia-dev] EFI/GPT</H1>
    <B>Oliver Burger</B> 
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    <I>Fri Mar  1 20:48:29 CET 2013</I>
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<PRE>Am 01.03.2013 20:42, schrieb Thomas Backlund:
&gt;<i> Well, technically we already support both, but not OOB with the installer.
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</I>&gt;<i> If you create gpt partitions with parted, the installer will happily
</I>&gt;<i> install mga on them, and it will boot and run correctly.
</I>Thank your for that answer.

&gt;<i> The efi part can also be managed, but you have some manual work
</I>&gt;<i> to get it to boot properly.
</I>&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;<i> I'm working on making mga3 beta3 live images capable of booting in
</I>&gt;<i> efi mode, and then if it works ok, I'll extend it to normal install
</I>&gt;<i> isos, and then we'll have to see what adaptions need to be done
</I>&gt;<i> in the installer to properly install efi bootloader and we'll be done.
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</I>&gt;&gt;<i> Can anyone help me?
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> Perhaps it would be good for someone with knowledge about that topic to
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> contact Bernd himself.
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> ixsoft is a major player in that field in Germany...
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</I>&gt;<i> Well, I do intend to make sure mga3 will boot &amp; install on uefi hw.
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</I>&gt;<i> (as for secure boot, that I wont ever support)
</I>&gt;<i>
</I>Sounds good. So we aim to support UEFI (without secure boot) for Mga3?
I will forward this to the German forums then...

Oliver

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Oliver Burger aka obgr_seneca

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