From: doug@douglaidlaw.net   
      
   Dan C wrote:   
      
   > On Mon, 28 Sep 2015 21:07:43 -0700, Bobbie Sellers wrote:   
   >   
   >> Hi former users of Mandriva,   
   >>   
   >> Mageia 5 got high marks in Distrowatch weekly recently.   
   >> It is more like Mandriva at this point than any other   
   distribution.   
   >> It does have full support for UEFI installs but does not support   
   the   
   >> secure boot.   
   >> Some long time users are having a multitude of problems   
   >> though as you can read in the Usenet newsgroup.   
   >>   
   >> We are still waiting for Texstar to get the U/EFI   
   > adaptation for   
   >> PC-LOS finished and out for download.  In April he said it was   
   taking a   
   >> long time.   
   >> I used PCLOS when I gave up on Mandriva 2010.2 which was   
   >> quite a while after the 2011 failed to work on my notebook of   
   the time.   
   >>  When I had to get a new notebook due to physical failure of my   
   older   
   >> one, i had to change to Mageia 4.1 which supported UEFI and GPT.   
   >>   
   >> Open Mandriva has abandoned the KDE Desktop Manager   
   >> which is sad I think but then Plasma 5 is not yet ready for   
   prime time.   
   >> But OM seems to support UEFI but since I don't care for the DM I   
   have   
   >> never bothered to install to my hard drive.   
   >>   
   >> bliss   
   >   
   > Sounds like you should switch to a distro that actually works.   
   >   
   > I suggest Slackware.   
   >   
   >   
   >   
   I had no problem getting Open Mandriva to use UEFI, but every time   
   I tried to install it, something went wrong at the last minute.   
      
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