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DeployingaUEFI‐AwareOperatingSystem

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OncethehardwareandfirmwaresupportUEFI,theoperatingsystemneedstoberedesignedtosupportUEFI.

UEFIisstillanemergingtechnologyandstandard,sothereareonlyafewoperatingsystemsthathavefullsupport.

DelloffersbothlegacyBIOS‐modeandUEFI‐mode.

OperatingSystemsthatsupport

UEFI‐

1) Microsoft®Windows®Vista,SP1andWindowsServer®2008–X64versionsonly.

2) SUSE

LinuxEnterpriseServer,release11,willcontainsupport

3) GeneralLinuxsupportisavailable,butaskyouroperatingsystemvendoriftheyfullysupportUEFIorwhat

theirplansare.

DeployingaUEFIOperatingSystem

ForMicrosoftoperatingsystems,press<F11>andchangetheBootManagertoUEFI.Oncethisisdone,simply

bootfromtheWindowsServer2008orVistaDVDandfollowthenormalinstallationsteps.Fromthisperspective,

everythingwillbethesameasBIOS‐modeinstallation.

WhatHASchanged?–

The

primaryvisiblechangesaretotheharddrivesetupalthoughthisisnotvisibletothecustomerduring

installation.BIOS‐modesetupinstallsMBRandhasasinglebootpartition.UEFIusesGPT.ForaMicrosoft

Windowsinstallation,threepartitionsarecreated:

Partition Type Format

EFISystemPartition(ESP) EFI (hidden) FAT32

MicrosoftReservedPartition(MSR) MSR

Windowsoperatingsystempartition Primary NTFS

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• TheESPcontainstheEFI‐capableWindowsBootManager,bootconfigurationdata(BCD),andrelatedfontfiles

• TheMSRisusedtostoremetadataoutsideoftheWindowsvolume.TheMSRpartitionmustexistbetweenthe

ESPandtheWindowsoperatingsystempartitions.

• Thesepartitionsarevisible

withtheDiskpartutility–DONOTchangeorremovethesepartitions.

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IMPORTANT:YoucannotswitchbetweenBIOS‐modeandUEFI‐modewithoutfullywipingthedrive,eitherby

usingtheDiskpartCleancommandorthroughtheharddiskcontrollerandreinitializingtheharddrive.Onceyou

transitiontoUEFI,

DellrecommendsthatyouleavethesysteminUEFI‐mode.

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