Re: Installing Linux on UEFI machine
- From: Frank Miles <fpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 15:22:21 +0000 (UTC)
On Sat, 12 May 2012 15:02:25 +0000, General Schvantzkoph 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?
I successfully installed Debian-stable from a USB "live" stick on a UEFI
machine with no CD drive (laptop). Wiped out the Windows installation,
repartitioned with the standard ext3, etc. I had expected problems on
this laptop, particularly with the touchpad. Ubuntu (newer than debian
stable) failed to handle the touchpad,a royal PITA. The LVM disk
partitioning with debian failed on installing grub and lilo as well
(though I'm new to that, maybe that would have been possible with greater
knowledge/effort). I'm happy, I've got Debian on all my machines, just
didn't expect the "old" debian to work as well on such a new machine.
.
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