UEFI-aware Alpha 2?

[varxx]

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.

[varxx]

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.

[doktor5000]

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

[varxx]

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/

[doktor5000]

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

[varxx]

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.

[isadora]

Wasn't there already a report concerning UEFI?

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

[doktor5000]

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 ...

[wintpe]

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

regards peter