Re: Installing Linux on UEFI machine

On Sat, 12 May 2012 12:01:45 -0500, Trevor Hemsley wrote:

On Sat, 12 May 2012 15:02:25 UTC in comp.os.linux.hardware, General
Schvantzkoph <schvantzkoph@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I'm trying to install Linux on a new HP box that has UEFI instead of
BIOS. First I tried Scientific Linux 6.2 (which is the distro I really
need to run on the box) but it doesn't have any support for UEFI in
it's partitioner. I then tried Fedora 16 and then Fedora 17 Beta. The
closest that I've come is getting to the GRUB command line, on most of
the installs the box doesn't see any bootable devices. Is there any
distro that works with UEFI?

Since SL is a RHEL clone and that has support for installing on UEFI
systems I'd be quite surprised to find it had been removed. CentOS 6.2
definitely has support but I doubt if many people have tested any of
them.

None of the Redhat's work, not even the beta of Fedora 17. Ubuntu 12.4 had
no trouble. I installed Ubuntu on one partition and SL6.2 on another.
Booting into Ubuntu and running update-gconf put the SL6.2 kernel into the
Ubuntu boot menu. This is a kludge but it works.
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