Re: Installing Linux on UEFI machine

On Mon, 14 May 2012 20:04:24 -0500, philo wrote:

On 05/13/2012 01:45 PM, a wrote:
On Sun, 13 May 2012 07:28:34 -0500, philo wrote:

On 05/12/2012 10:24 AM, a wrote:
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.
Are you sure?
http://goo.gl/pmDrG



maybe this will help a bit???


http://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/858
Nonsense.

1) Fedora uses GRUB2, not grub legacy 2) Fedora defaults on GPT, not
mbr.

This is true at least since 2011.


I think you really need to learn how to read
I did, and I've just read your idiotic answer.
Again,
which part of:
"UEFI for AMD64 and Intel 64"

present in fedora's documentation http://goo.gl/pmDrG

you don't understand?
.

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