On Fri, Jul 19, 2019 at 08:13:09PM +1000, Stuart Longland wrote:
> On 19/7/19 6:21 pm, Otto Moerbeek wrote:
> > Or save yourself the trouble and go for legacy mode.
> >
> > -Otto
> >
>
> … except if legacy mode is broken on the machine in question, in which
> case you're stuffed.
I' not guessing. Legacy mode works fine on the X1 6th gen. I'm telling
this from experience (I use one).
-Otto
>
> I had a baptism of fire with a UEFI-only motherboard (Supermicro
> A2SDi-16C-HLN4F) earlier this week.
>
> I had an existing install of Gentoo Linux that I wanted to run on it,
> but it was partitioned and set up for a BIOS-based boot set-up, not
> UEFI. I ended up PXE-booting Ubuntu (for which there was a
> UEFI-compatible PXE image), doing a back-up to a USB drive, installing
> Ubuntu, then having gotten the machine booting, imaging Gentoo back across.
>
> Pretty sure it refused to look at a CD with El Torito boot sectors on it
> (so there goes install65.iso and cd65.iso), and it flatly refused to
> load pxelinux.0 as shipped by Ubuntu/Debian.
>
> Not sure if OpenBSD's boot-loader is UEFI-compatible, but if not, you'll
> strike the very same issues.
> --
> Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL)
>
> I haven't lost my mind...
> ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.
>
