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Re: Installing Linux on UEFI machine

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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@yahoo.com> 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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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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