Support bios rpm

superastorh

Hi, I am a new user here

I tried it solus os

I was very good with it in Live mode

The problem was installing the distribution, is requiring gpt BIOS to dual boot

Why is I can not to install this beautiful distribution?

I want to install this distribution alongside Fedora

superastorh

mpr not rpm 😅

i am used rpm in more time

kyrios

Solus supports both Legagy (BIOS) and UEFI.
if another OS is already installed on your machine, Solus must be installed the same way.

https://getsol.us/articles/installation/

superastorh

can solus os support mpr in soon

JoshStrobl

Per the documentation @kyrios linked:

Note: Legacy (BIOS) must use MBR partition table while Unified EFI (UEFI) must use GPT partition table.

Spells it out quite clearly.

superastorh

Thanks for your response however

Why is that not officially supported like Ubuntu and many other distributions?

JoshStrobl

superastorh Why is that not officially supported like Ubuntu and many other distributions?

Because that's literally against the UEFI specification and they use a GRUB EFI shim, not a proper loader. You are supposed to use MBR for BIOS and GPT for UEFI.

Per the spec:

In Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) enabled systems, a pointer to the RSDP structure exists within the EFI System Table. The OS loader is provided a pointer to the EFI System Table at invocation. The OS loader must retrieve the pointer to the RSDP structure from the EFI System Table and convey the pointer to OSPM, using an OS dependent data structure, as part of the hand off of control from the OS loader to the OS.

The OS loader locates the pointer to the RSDP structure by examining the EFI Configuration Table within the EFI System Table. EFI Configuration Table entries consist of Globally Unique Identifier (GUID)/table pointer pairs.

From 5.2.5.2 Finding the RSDP on UEFI Enabled Systems of UEFI ACPI Specification, Version 6.3 .

superastorh

Okay, I'll give up the thought of trying distribution
Maybe in the future, if the war ends, I can use it on a new devic

JoshStrobl

Ok...