Context: a month or some back I bought an Asus Eeepc 1215b netbook and found this uefi frankenbios replacement prevented me from installing ubuntu coexisting with the win7.
After scratching around I found arch linux would install and moved to arch. Conclusion 1. Arch is painful after Ubuntu. Cutting edge it may be, but everything comes out of the box unconfigured or misconfigured. By comparison the user experience of Ubuntu is just so so slick. Conclusion 2. Asus (and I suspect others) have not really implemented UEFI. I suspect they have implemented the minimal amount of UEFI on top of BIOS required to boot windows. (How do I know... various things around the 'net, kernel panics in UEFI service calls, ...) The trick to installing Ubuntu was 1. (Possibly) Using the latest build of Precise Pangolin 2. Pounding on the ESC key and telling the Bios to boot the "vanilla" USB pen, not the UEFI USB pen. Ah well, one of the Joys of Linux is there are _always_ alternatives. And you can _always_ hack things to your own tastes. (Right: Pangolin's up and running, first things first, out goes Ubuntu Package thingy and back comes synaptic. Then out goes Unity and in comes gnome-shell!) ======================================================================= This email, including any attachments, is only for the intended addressee. It is subject to copyright, is confidential and may be the subject of legal or other privilege, none of which is waived or lost by reason of this transmission. If the receiver is not the intended addressee, please accept our apologies, notify us by return, delete all copies and perform no other act on the email. Unfortunately, we cannot warrant that the email has not been altered or corrupted during transmission. =======================================================================
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