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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