Shall I use UEFI ? How to get rid of it ?

[vincentm77]

Hi everyone,

I am trying to install Mageia 4 (64bits) on my new Lenovo B5400 notebook...
As far as I understand, support for UEFI ("boot"system on recent notebooks) is experimental, so I would prefer to get rid of it.

However, when using the Mageia installer, it seems that diskdrake does not partition my HD correctly... At least the modifications I did (suppressing windows partition... creating / and /home...) are not taken into account when I reboot...

Am I missing something ?!

It used to be easy as pie to install Mageia... now my partition table seems to be corrupted and I don t know what to do...

Help appreciated !
Vincent

[benmc]

hi

if you dont want uefi and windows at all, you can check your system bios and disable uefi or enable legacy bios.
attempt again to install Mageia, your new installation partitions may have to be in ext3 or 4, not btrfs

let me know if it works

[vincentm77]

Thanks Ben for your reply.
Actually I would like to keep windows (I would do a fresh install of Windows).

UEFI is said to be experimental in Mageia4, so I guess I would better stick to Legacy bios.

Thanks
Vincent

[benmc]

you will probably find that your HDD is partitioned in GPT format.
if you can , run Gparted first and set up the partitions in the MBR format. windows / swap / root ...etc

[vincentm77]

I will tray this and keep you updated.

Thanks
Vincent