XPost: alt.os.linux.mageia   
   From: maurice@nomail.afraid.org   
      
   On Sat, 22 Jun 2013 16:52:19 +0100, I wrote:   
      
   > the SO needs a new PC.   
   >  I've found a UK supplier who will sell PC without operating system.   
      
   Now have one from another UK PC 'assembler', having an ASUS P8H61-MX-   
   USB3 mother board, which - according to the manual I was able to   
   download - had these BIOS Boot options:   
      
      'Enable both UEFI and Legacy boot'   
      'Enable Legacy boot and disable UEFI boot'   
      'Enable UEFI boot, and disable Legacy boot'   
      
   The actuality was that although the hard copy manual agreed with the   
   above, the BIOS Setup screen showed a different approach:   
      
    Just 2 Boot setup options:   
      
       - Secure Boot [Enable/Disable]   
       - OS type     [Windows UEFI/Other OS]   
      
   where:   
      
        'Windows UEFI mode' means:   
      
     "Executes the MS Secure Boot check. Only select this option when   
      booting on Windows UEFI mode or other MS Secure Boot compliant   
      OS."   
      
        'Other OS':   
      
     "Get the optimized function when booting on Windows non-UEFI mode,   
      Windows Vista/XP, or other MS Secure Boot non-compliant OS.   
        (Only on Windows UEFI mode that MS Secure Boot can function   
      properly.)"   
      
   The m/c came with Secure Boot disabled, and 'Other OS'.   
     (A Windows boot manager was in the MBR, and there were 2 NTFS   
   partitions, so I guess they tested the m/c with Windows, though my   
   order was 'No OS'.)   
      
   So, I booted Gparted from a USB stick (just happened to have it there   
   for setting up the netbook), and sorted out the partitions (though I   
   forgot to create a Swap partition, and had to add one later and add   
   line into /etc/fstab).   
     Then fed it the Mageia-3 .iso DVD, which installed without incident   
   (though it just pointed out I had no Swap, and seemed happy to proceed   
   swapless).   
      
   So, despite all the UEFI trepidation, all installed painlessly :-))   
      
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   /\/\aurice   
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