On Mon, Jun 13, 2022 at 11:06:38AM -0400, gene heskett wrote:
On 6/13/22 09:17, Michael Stone wrote:
On Sun, Jun 12, 2022 at 08:19:02PM +0100, mick crane wrote:
The clue though is as somebody said that disabling this new
fangled EFI doesn't seem to do what Gene (or I ) thinks it does.
new fangled? UEFI has been around longer than the PC BIOS was when
linux was first written...
If that is what they taught you in history, Michael, sue the the
school. Bios has been around since the first IBM PC, or before.
When linux was first written, the IBM PC was 15 years old. UEFI 2.0 (the
form used in basically everything these days) was released in 2006, 16
years ago. QED, UEFI has been around longer now than the PC BIOS was
when linux was introduced. You can push the antecedents of the PC BIOS a
back a few years to CP/M in the mid 70s, but you can likewise trace EFI
to its genesis in the itanium project in the late 90s. At any rate, UEFI
makes a lot more sense for booting a modern system than does a
compatibility layer trying to emulate a 50-year-old 16-bit
microcomputer.
UEFI
was microsofts failed attempt to lock people into dos/windows about 20
years ago when unix/linux was beginning to eat their lunch.
Please just stop the editorializing, especially when it isn't based in
actual facts.
