Mageia 5.1 64 Bit UEFI Mission Impossible?

[dirkme]

Hi Mageia Friends,

after the impressive performance of Mageia 32 Bit on my 10 years old Packard Bell, I have installed Mageia 5.1 64 Bit on my gaming and work machine.

I had 3 attempts to get UEFI working but nothing seems to work, Grub2 just kicks out with an error.

I have it now installed without EFI but just wondering if I would have created my own ESP partition if that would have worked.

Maybe, someone who has it installed as UEFI can share some light?

Also, where could I ask if clonezilla could be added in Mageia?

I use clonezilla quite a lot to copy hard-drives and partitions etc and until now I have my Arch install running, but if I want to stop using Arch, I would need some of the tools I call essential for me.

[dbg]

Clonezilla will be in MGA6. https://madb.mageia.org/package/show/na ... rch/x86_64

[dirkme]

Clonezilla will be in MGA6. https://madb.mageia.org/package/show/na ... rch/x86_64

Great news, thanks a lot

[benmc]

Mageia 5, 5.1 and Cauldron (Mageia 6) all fully support UEFI, so not Mission Impossible.

I had 3 attempts to get UEFI working but nothing seems to work, Grub2 just kicks out with an error.

what is the error?
are you dual booting with win8 or higher?
brand of motherboard or if a laptop, brand and model?

did you create the partitions for the system using custom disk partitioning, reuse existing partitions, or did you use "erase and use entire disk"?
ext3/4 or btrfs or other file system.
GPT or MBR partition table?

what is the mount point for your ESP(?) partition?

Is UEFI an important issue?

[Lebarhon]

Hello,

Did you see these wiki pages
https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Mageia_in_du ... 8_and_over
https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Installing_o ... I_firmware

[gohlip]

Did you see these wiki pages

particularly the part where you need to boot up the install media in the right mode (uefi or bios-legacy)