On 19/03/12 9:11 AM, John Carter wrote:
Not that the old one was lovable.... BIOS, was a kludgy kludge pasted
on top of a badly kludged kludge.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Extensible_Firmware_Interface
Either way UEFI is what is standing between me and a brand new dual
booting Asus 1215B netbook.
Of tuppence I'd blast away the Windows 7 partition, but my Glorious
Overlady, She Who Must Be Obeyed wants me to keep it.
Sigh! Not having much luck with Oneiric Ocelot amd64... I can install
and run Oneiric trivially, the blinking UEFI boot code merely insists
on booting windows and only windows.
Downloading a daily build of Precise Pangolin now and will give that a
try.
Look for anything about "Legacy Mode" in the config, and turn it on.
I'm sure uefi will be great when its established and stable, but for now
its like running 64 bit or a ndiswrapper wireless NIC 6-8 years ago.
I've got a IBM x3250 M4 server here, that takes 4 minutes to get through
the whole detection booting thing.
Whereas my asus netbook gets through it in about 4 seconds, or half a
second if I turn on fastboot.
--
C. Falconer
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