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   Message 28,946 of 29,919   
   Bit Twister to Bit Twister   
   Re: Some UEFI progress   
   04 Feb 13 18:26:22   
   
   XPost: alt.os.linux.mageia   
   From: BitTwister@mouse-potato.com   
      
   On Mon, 4 Feb 2013 17:54:07 +0000 (UTC), Bit Twister wrote:   
   > On Mon, 04 Feb 2013 15:14:34 +0000, Ar wrote:   
   >   
   >> Interesting, but I really don't care about secure boot (switched off   
   >> that Microsoft crap although every new BIOS update switches that   
   >> Microsoft crap back on).   
   >   
   > How many BIOS updates are there? If you mean each BIOS change, then   
   > maybe it is a procedure problem.   
   >   
   >> I AM bothered about not being able to install Mageia in a separate   
   >> partition on the same drive because of GPT partition, the Mageia   
   >> installer does not know there are any partitions on the drive   
   >> already.   
   >   
   > No idea about Mageia 2, but Mageia 3 found a few partitions.   
   > $ grep uuid /etc/fstab_vinstall   
   > UUID=E858B4EB58B4BA20 /media/win_c ntfs-3g defaults 0 0   
   > UUID=07378A593F364047 /media/win_d ntfs-3g defaults 0 0   
   > UUID=4614B60114B5F451 /media/win_e ntfs-3g defaults 0 0   
   >   
      
   Oops, wrong window.   
   $ grep uuid /etc/fstab_vinstall   
   UUID=ACDC-1CC5 /media/win_ vfat umask=000,iocharset=utf8 0 0   
   UUID=8E2AD9802AD965AD /media/win_c ntfs-3g defaults,umask=000 0 0   
   UUID=6634DC5734DC2BB5 /media/win_d ntfs-3g defaults,umask=000 0 0   
   UUID=D2D66C95D66C7B9B /media/win_e ntfs-3g defaults,umask=000 0 0   
   UUID=92D8DFE3D8DFC39F /media/win_f ntfs-3g defaults,umask=000 0 0   
   UUID=248bd33f-54be-4359-874f-9ca37d185d06 swap swap defaults 0 0   
      
      
   $ dir /media/win_/EFI   
   total 108   
   drwxrwxrwx 5 root root  4096 Oct 29 14:14 .   
   drwxrwxrwx 3 root root  4096 Dec 31  1969 ..   
   drwxrwxrwx 3 root root  4096 Nov  1 09:36 ASUS   
   -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24576 Nov  1 09:22 ASUSBCD   
   drwxrwxrwx 2 root root  4096 Oct 29 14:35 Boot   
   drwxrwxrwx 3 root root  4096 Oct 29 14:14 MICROSOFT   
   -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20480 Nov  1 09:21 WindowBCD   
   -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20480 Nov  1 09:21 WindowBCD.LOG   
   -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root     0 Nov  1 09:21 WindowBCD.LOG1   
   -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root     0 Nov  1 09:21 WindowBCD.LOG2   
   -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12288 Nov  1 09:21 WinPEBCD   
   -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12288 Nov  1 08:51 winpebcd.LOG   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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