Installation problems

[fred108]

Hi all,

I am having problems with installing mageia 6 to a spare hard drive I have installed on my system. My primary drive (sda) has mangaro installed on it and I am very happy with it. I just want to just want to install Majeia onto sdc. The magician just doesn't see sdc and thus won't install magia 6. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Cheers fred108

[doktor5000]

What dou you mean in particular by magician, and what installation media do you use? Also, is that with MBR or GPT partitioning?
The output of fdisk -l or lsblk -fl might be helpful ...

[fred108]

Sorry for the bad info. I tried the the install using the wizard installer. The sdc partition comes up as GPT partition table. My other 2 discs have msdos partition tables. I am changing my sdc drive to a msdos partition table. Is this the right thing to do? Cheers

[gohlip]

Generally speaking, it is best not to mix gpt and msdos disks.
Also do not mix uefi and bios-legacy.
Again generally, if gpt use uefi
and if msdos, use bios-legacy.
A uefi grub cannot boot bios-legacy windows
and a bios-legacy grub cannot boot uefi windows.
So if you want to keep an existing windows, use same setup as the windows system.

To install in uefi, install media must be booted up in uefi
To install in bios-legacy, the install media must be booted up in bios-legacy.


Some exceptions - One exception -
A gpt disk can be installed in bios-legacy with a bios_grub partition and flagged as such.
Only reason to do this is when the disk exceeds 2TB as msdos disks cannot handle > 2TB and the system is only bios-legacy.

[doktor5000]

what installation media do you use?

[fred108]

Thanks for the help doktor5000. I still have the problem but I should have enough info to nut it out. Thanks again. Cheers