[CentOS-announce] CentOS-6.3 / x86_64 UEFI Installer Released

The regular installer we released for CentOS-6.3 does not work for UEFI

enabled machine instances that do not have a BIOS fallback mode ( this

includes physical machines as well as some virtualised environments ).

To address this problem, we are releasing another minimal install image

for CentOS-6.3/x86_64. This image has been tested on various IBM, HP and

Dell hardware along with VMWare and VirtualBox virtualisation products.

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ISO Name:

CentOS-6.3-x86_64-minimal-EFI.iso

Sha256Sum:

b6bcf0c7050458dcaccf40a05b08e3625d823d8e4d77ff0f67fb7b96655f043f

If you are unable to verify the image using sha256, you can also get

other checkums :

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I'm trying to make sure that we do enough testing and have enough

resources for UEFI testing to ensure that the next and subsequent

releases do not have a problem in this environment. In the mean time,

the installer buildsystem for CentOS-6 has been updated to also build

and test the UEFI requirements in sync with the rest of the installer

build process.

Thanks to the guys at VMware for working through this issue with us. As

well as Christoph Galuschka and Pasi KÃ¤rkkÃ¤inen from the CentOS QA team

for helping test this image.

Feedback is welcome via either the issue tracker[1] or the centos-devel

list[2]. And we are always looking for more people to come and join the

testing effort, specially on platforms and environments we dont have

exposure to at the moment. Want to help on that front ? Drop in on

#centos-devel on irc.freenode.net and say hi.

Karanbir Singh, The CentOS Project

+44-207-0999389 | http://www.centos.org/ | twitter.com/CentOS

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