Hi all,
even though I have been parrt of this newsgroup for years I am still not
an expert and have doubt...
First time I tried to install Mageia9 on a Dual Boot machine I had a
problem with the /boot/uefi...

Used Custom partition and kept the existing partition I had in Mageia8...

.... during installation when trying to create a mount point for /boot/uefi
as requested, when I clicked the scroll down menu there was no such
option on the list, did not know what to do so I click on Linux native
and was given the chance to type myself ' /boot/uefi ' and kept the same
size.

I thought everything went fine but when I rebooted Windows was not on the
boot menu, but Mageia8 and mageia9 where on it.

I tried through MCC but even there there was no way I could find an option
which allowed me to add Windows even though the option 'Checking for other
OS ' was clicked.

So , given that I have an external HD for all my important files and the
amount of data I had left was minimal and not so important, I decided to
reinstall everything again , this time deleting all partition and creating
all anew.

This time the option /boot/uefi ( or /boot/EFI dont remember ) was there
so I created it and everything went fine ...or so I thought...

[santo@localhost ~]$ df
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
devtmpfs 1.9G 0 1.9G 0% /dev
tmpfs 1.9G 0 1.9G 0% /dev/shm
tmpfs 1.9G 1.1M 1.9G 1% /run
/dev/sda6 20G 222M 18G 2% /
/dev/sda9 15G 4.4G 9.3G 32% /usr
tmpfs 1.9G 8.0K 1.9G 1% /tmp
/dev/sda10 204G 113M 194G 1% /var <========
/dev/sda3 98G 81G 17G 84% /media/windows
/dev/sda7 2.0G 8.0K 2.0G 1% /boot/uefi <========
/dev/sda1 96M 91M 5.3M 95% /boot/EFI <========
tmpfs 377M 60K 377M 1% /run/user/1000

I am bothered by the 204G of /var, I certainly did not create it... and I
do not understand the two /boot/uefi and /boot/EFI...

- the grub list also seems strange, wanted to post it here but was not
able to find it under /boot/GRUB.

below are the media sources I enabled, wondering if the 32bit are still
necessary and if what is needed is all there...

[santo@localhost ~]$ urpmq --list-media active

this is the mirror selected...

http://mirror.datacenter.by/pub/mirrors/mageia.org/distrib/9/x86_64/
media...

Core Release (Installer)
Nonfree Release (Installer)
Core Release (distrib1)
Core Updates (distrib3)
Nonfree Release (distrib11)
Nonfree Updates (distrib13)
Tainted Release Debug (distrib22)
Tainted Updates (distrib23)
Core 32bit Release (distrib31)
Core 32bit Updates (distrib32)
Nonfree 32bit Release (distrib36)
Nonfree 32bit Updates (distrib37)
Tainted 32bit Release (distrib41)
Tainted 32bit Updates (distrib42)

any comments suggestions welcome
:-)

Santo

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santo escreveu:
> Hi all, even though I have been parrt of this newsgroup for years I
> am still not an expert and have doubt... First time I tried to
> install Mageia9 on a Dual Boot machine I had a problem with the
> /boot/uefi...
>
> Used Custom partition and kept the existing partition I had in
> Mageia8...
>
> ... during installation when trying to create a mount point for
> /boot/uefi as requested, when I clicked the scroll down menu there
> was no such option on the list, did not know what to do so I
> click on Linux native and was given the chance to type myself '
> /boot/uefi ' and kept the same size.

This UEFI partition is a bit strange. The UEFI distributions I install
ask for a /boot/efi partition.

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On Thu, 28 Sep 2023 01:09:27 -0300, Gilberto F da Silva wrote:

> This UEFI partition is a bit strange. The UEFI distributions I install
> ask for a /boot/efi partition.
>

n fact I was not sure about the whole outcome...so given that it was a
freshly new installation I decided to reinstall again, this time paying
more attentions...

[santo@localhost ~]$ df
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
devtmpfs 1.9G 0 1.9G 0% /dev
tmpfs 1.9G 0 1.9G 0% /dev/shm
tmpfs 1.9G 1.1M 1.9G 1% /run
/dev/sda6 7.6G 158M 7.1G 3% /
/dev/sda8 29G 4.4G 23G 17% /usr
tmpfs 1.9G 8.0K 1.9G 1% /tmp
/dev/sda1 96M 91M 5.3M 95% /boot/EFI
/dev/sda3 98G 81G 17G 84% /media/windows
/dev/sda9 203G 27M 203G 1% /home
tmpfs 377M 68K 377M 1% /run/user/1000

On Mon, 02 Oct 2023 09:44:36 -0400, David W. Hodgins wrote:

>
> Most likely the installer was booted in bios compatibility mode the
> first time,
> so it would not have asked for an efi partition.
> https://wiki.mageia.org/en/
Installing_on_systems_with_UEFI_firmware#How_to_distinguish_between_UEFI_and_BIOS_mode_for_Mageia_boot_media
>
> Regards, Dave Hodgins

Thanks for the explanation. Very appreciated...:-)