UEFI is why I switched to Fedora. It was the only distro at the time that supported UEFI out of the box, and even then, it was a little clunky.
On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 1:50 PM, Ken D'Ambrosio <k...@jots.org> wrote: > > Wouldn't boot to Linux. Well, okay. Let's try Windows 8. Wouldn't > boot to *Windows*. First it tried to do a repair of some sort -- failed > miserably. Then it wouldn't get further than the "Dell" splash screen. > Eventually wound up disabling UEFI secure boot, which allowed it to go > into Windows -- whereupon I gave it back to the by-now very nervous > laptop owner, and let the damn WiFi be. Lucky you! I bought a new system from Best Buy (I know, I know...) and tried to dual boot it to Mandriva. Somehow I ended up bricking it. Bottom line -- I think we, as Linux weenies, are gonna have to play > with damn UEFI and get a feel for it. Is it uniform across vendors? > Yes, we will. Right now, I know of no decent boot editor utilities and none at all that run from within Linux. > Can I always go for the "disable secure boot" option (which would, > presumably, allow me to boot Linux)? > I think that may be vendor specific and possibly even windows installation specific. At the moment UEFI documentation is junk. Cross platform implementation is even worse. Brian
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