From: karl.dalen21@gmail.com   
      
   On Sunday, November 17, 2013 12:34:03 PM UTC-8, Bit Twister wrote:   
   > On Sun, 17 Nov 2013 14:55:17 -0500, David W. Hodgins wrote:   
   >:   
   >   
   > Second that. You need to at least run cauldron alpha1 and above to   
   >   
   > verify if it will run on your hardware and verify the applications you   
   >   
   > use work.   
   >   
      
   I would be happy to try "cauldron alpha" or other releases on my   
   new system after I get a stable boot environment up with all my apps   
   running. I suppose I should run alpha versions from a separate   
   disk to be on the safe side.   
      
   I didn't get longer than to just install on hd from DVD Yesterday.   
   It loaded up nicely from the DVD and after I've completed the install   
   I could not boot from the hd. No matter how I changed the setting   
   in the BIOS boot menu (ASUS P8B75-M motherboard) it did not detect the   
   hd as a bootable device (although it was detected as a normal disk,   
   just could not boot from it)   
   I believe this is related to "Secure Boot" in the bios that need to be   
   disabled as well as the need to enable CSM to allow legacy OS to boot   
   from MBR.   
   Anyone knows what "UEFI" boot mode refers to? Is that some "Windows"   
   stuff ?   
   It's too bad that a mother board requires tweaking the bios setting   
   just to boot from standard MBR.   
   I did install on empty 2T sata disk. My plan for tonight is to:   
      
   (1) Boot up live knoppix and prepartion from fdisk the disk into   
       Linux (1.8TB), Linux swap (10GB),  Solaris (50GB) and fat32 20G   
   (2) Disable everything with respect to "secure boot/Fast boot"   
       and enable legacy boot only in BIOS and reinstall Mageia 3.0   
       on partition (1). I'm only going to use one partition for /.   
       Earlier I used to have separated extended partitions for /var /home   
       but I don't think I need that with such a big disk.   
   (3) If needed later I can install solaris 11 on part3.   
      
   Any reason to go with ext4 over ext3? I've always used ext3 and find   
   it good enough for my needs and it is compatble with older versions   
   and easy to handle using fsck.   
      
   Does Mageia use grub or grup2 ?   
   Is there a way to get the boot loader stored in the root partition   
   of the Linux fdisk partition rather than in MBR? I didn't see that option   
   when I installed but maybe I didn't look hard enough in the   
   various "advanced setting menus" that appear during the install process.   
   If so I could chain load Mageia from another boot loader on MBR.   
      
   To update packages I will definitely try your "script" method with   
   pulling the updates from file since I don't have 100% reliable internet.   
      
   Thanks,   
      
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