Description of problem: I started the mageia 6 installation by selecting the UEFI-DVD drive. On a blank disk I chose automatic partitioning on a 500Mb disk: Creating an / boot / EFI (DOS system) Creating a root / (50gb) (ext4) creating a 4gb swap The rest in / home (ext4) As I said, in automatic. At reboot, impossible: can not find / boot / EFI So I tried the installation by selecting the AHCI-DVD player On the disk I deleted the old installation with / boot / EFI to have a blank disk I chose the automatic partitioning, which gave: Creating a root / (50gb) (ext4) creating a 4gb swap The rest in / home (ext4) And everything works normally. My "bios" is an AXTU ASRock UEFI I admit I do not see the connection between the boot of the DVD in UEFI or in AHCI except that the installation will unfold differently. I looked in the "type" possible for the boot, there is a boot / GPT Should I have imposed this choice after automatic partitioning? Thank you
At first sight, it looks like you have a dos partitioned disk instead of a GPT partitioned disk. Even if you have an UEFI "bios", UEFI mode won't work if the disk isn't GPT https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Installing_on_systems_with_UEFI_firmware Can you please go to a terminal/konsole, become _root_ and do: fdisk -l > fdisk.txt and then attach fdisk.txt to this bug report? The output will either prove I'm wrong, or that I'm right ;-)
Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFOCC: (none) => marja11
(In reply to Marja Van Waes from comment #1) > At first sight, it looks like you have a dos partitioned disk instead of a > GPT partitioned disk. Even if you have an UEFI "bios", UEFI mode won't work > if the disk isn't GPT > https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Installing_on_systems_with_UEFI_firmware > > > > Can you please go to a terminal/konsole, become _root_ and do: > > fdisk -l > fdisk.txt > > and then attach fdisk.txt to this bug report? > > The output will either prove I'm wrong, or that I'm right ;-) Yes,Actually the disks are partitioned in DOS mode: fdisk.txt Disque /dev/sda : 465,8 GiB, 500107862016 octets, 976773168 secteurs Unités : secteur de 1 × 512 = 512 octets Taille de secteur (logique / physique) : 512 octets / 512 octets taille d'E/S (minimale / optimale) : 512 octets / 512 octets Type d'étiquette de disque : dos Identifiant de disque : 0xd05e5dcb Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type /dev/sda1 * 2048 307194929 307192882 146,5G 83 Linux /dev/sda2 307195904 409593239 102397336 48,8G 83 Linux /dev/sda3 409593856 417770324 8176469 3,9G 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda4 417771520 976751999 558980480 266,6G 83 Linux Disque /dev/sdb : 372,6 GiB, 400088457216 octets, 781422768 secteurs Unités : secteur de 1 × 512 = 512 octets Taille de secteur (logique / physique) : 512 octets / 512 octets taille d'E/S (minimale / optimale) : 512 octets / 512 octets Type d'étiquette de disque : dos Identifiant de disque : 0x5b418d2e Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type /dev/sdb1 * 0 0 0 0B 0 Empty /dev/sdb2 * 0 0 0 0B 0 Empty /dev/sdb3 * 0 0 0 0B 0 Empty /dev/sdb4 * 0 0 0 0B 0 Empty Disque /dev/sdc : 189,9 GiB, 203928109056 octets, 398297088 secteurs Unités : secteur de 1 × 512 = 512 octets Taille de secteur (logique / physique) : 512 octets / 512 octets taille d'E/S (minimale / optimale) : 512 octets / 512 octets Type d'étiquette de disque : dos Identifiant de disque : 0xfd31652a Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type /dev/sdc1 * 2048 398267414 398265367 189,9G 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT Thank you.
Thanks for the feedback, Pierre! So this isn't a bug. (Don't worry, it is normal to sometimes file a bug report about something that isn't a bug, that has happened to many of us. The only sure way to avoid that is to never file a bug report, which, obviously, wouldn't be good.) Closing.
Resolution: (none) => INVALIDStatus: NEW => RESOLVED