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Re: Installing Linux on UEFI machine

From General Schvantzkoph <schvantzkoph@yahoo.com>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject Re: Installing Linux on UEFI machine
Date 2012-05-14 00:03 +0000
Message-ID <a1b0e3Fo97U4@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
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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

That's it. I used gparted from a Fedora Live USB stick and replaced the 
partition table with a standard DOS partition table. Once I had the new 
table I was able to install SL6.2 without having to waste a partition on 
Ubuntu.

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Installing Linux on UEFI machine General Schvantzkoph <schvantzkoph@yahoo.com> - 2012-05-12 15:02 +0000
  Re: Installing Linux on UEFI machine a <no@nospam.com> - 2012-05-12 15:24 +0000
    Re: Installing Linux on UEFI machine philo <philo@privacy.net> - 2012-05-13 07:28 -0500
      Re: Installing Linux on UEFI machine a <no@nospam.com> - 2012-05-13 18:45 +0000
        Re: Installing Linux on UEFI machine philo <philo@privacy.net> - 2012-05-14 20:04 -0500
          Re: Installing Linux on UEFI machine a <no@nospam.com> - 2012-05-15 13:07 +0000
      Re: Installing Linux on UEFI machine General Schvantzkoph <schvantzkoph@yahoo.com> - 2012-05-14 00:03 +0000
        Re: Installing Linux on UEFI machine philo <philo@privacy.net> - 2012-05-14 20:04 -0500
  Re: Installing Linux on UEFI machine "Trevor Hemsley" <Trevor.Hemsley@mytrousers.ntlworld.com> - 2012-05-12 12:01 -0500
    Re: Installing Linux on UEFI machine General Schvantzkoph <schvantzkoph@yahoo.com> - 2012-05-13 16:48 +0000
      Re: Installing Linux on UEFI machine Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> - 2012-05-13 10:32 -0700
        Re: Installing Linux on UEFI machine General Schvantzkoph <schvantzkoph@yahoo.com> - 2012-05-13 19:33 +0000
  Re: Installing Linux on UEFI machine Frank Miles <fpm@u.washington.edu> - 2012-05-14 15:22 +0000
  Re: Installing Linux on UEFI machine cbelliston@gmail.com - 2012-07-12 12:01 -0700

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