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Is there a 64-bit iso for Mageia 3 Alpha 2 that will boot on a UEFI-only system and produce a UEFI-bootable installation? Thanks.

I ask the question above because the iso that I downloaded today does not appear to contain an EFI folder or other components necessary for booting via UEFI.

What happens when you try to boot from that image? And for comparison, is there another distro which supports this already?

doktor5000 wrote:What happens when you try to boot from that image? And for comparison, is there another distro which supports this already?

Total boot failure. The image will boot only if I set my machine to "Legacy-BIOS" rather than UEFI.

Yes, there are more and more distros that are supporting booting via UEFI. They include:

RHEL 5.9
Fedora 17 and later
OpenSUSE 12.2
Debian
Arch Linux (as of Oct. 2012)
Ubuntu 64 bit
Bridge
Siduction
Aptosid

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions ... 175429194/

Well you should probably report this as a bug: https://wiki.mageia.org/en/How_to_report_a_bug_properly

doktor5000 wrote:Well you should probably report this as a bug: https://wiki.mageia.org/en/How_to_report_a_bug_properly

It's not a bug, really. It's more likely a choice that the devs have made. There are more and more people who are wanting to do UEFI-only installations, especially people who are formatting SSDs with gpt, but it takes some tweaking of the installation iso on the part of the devs.

But you know best. Is a bug report a good way to request UEFI-capability?

Thanks.

Wasn't there already a report concerning UEFI?

https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=416

isadora wrote:Wasn't there already a report concerning UEFI?

https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=416

Well, that is more about grub2. But if we don't get grub2 in time, it could still be possible to whip up something that boots on UEFI-only systems.
So i'd go for a separate bug report. And yes, a bug report is a sensible way to request a feature (also known as enhancement request).
You could have proposed it as a feature for next Mageia version as in https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Category:Pro ... ureMageia3
but now it's too late for that, features were already decided some time ago ...

Is uefi realy required most bioses have a backwards boot mode to support older none uefi aware os

regards peter