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HI guys,
i'm very new to linux , and of course i'm learning mageia and i'm not skill at all, .... i have got mageia 4 64bits on dual boot with w 8.1, asus motherbrd, the problem is mageia starts rarely, in most cases nothing at all, during installation i see a shot which tell me (...someting of this frases) drack in not able to manage partition because it is very damaged, and tell me if i want to loose partitions, i choose no , because i'm scared to loose also windows patition,... anyway when i try to boot it, goes on emergency mode, ... after some test, i find the loggin file which tell me i've got some api warnings with 0x0000000000000000f000x000000000000f01f system I0 conflicts with region \_sb_pci0.sbus.smbi 1 c20120725/utaddress -251 ....... and red errors like: failed to mount /media/win_d , end dependency failed for local file system,... dependency failed for mark the need to relabel after reboot...
someone told me the problem could be uefi efi windows protocoll, but i have blocked secure boot from bios ... but nothing to do,
i hope someone can help me, thinking i'm mid-windows user thanks in advance.

Gianluca

Hi

Your windows 8.1 has likely set HDD partitions under GPT. Also likely is your mobo bios is set to UEFI, a Microsoft thing.
Mageia 4 is able to deal with UEFi but you will probably need to read this https://wiki.mageia.org/en/UEFI_how-to.

sorry I cant be of more help.

sorry, but link in not exact

For some reason it wont link.

oh well. just copy and paste to search bar of your preferred browser, new tab

https://wiki.mageia.org/en/UEFI_how-to

benmc wrote:For some reason it wont link.

It will. For normal URLs not containing special characters like # even no need to use url tags.

yesterday evening i tried to format with uefi boot disabled, and mageia started ok, but after downloading system upgrading to new kernell , when try to reboot now i 've got new error with someting like job waiting systenctl status plymouth-quite and response is status inactive (dead)

What graphics card does your box use?