[OCLUG-Tech] UEFI on SDD

2013-12-16 Thread Eric Brackenbury
Hi Folks Having a bit of a brain teaser at the moment. I have been running Ubuntu 12.04 on all my machines but out of curiosity I tried putting 13.10 on my Thinkpad X120e, it has a 250gig SDD which ran 12.04 just fine. I looked at the partitions and saw it had an efi boot partition before I tried

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] books

2013-12-16 Thread Strake
On 16/12/2013, Stephen Gregory oc...@kernelpanic.ca wrote: On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 5:29 AM, Rick Leir rick.l...@sympatico.ca wrote: The OP RDay asked if we value books. A recent Eng grad from Carleton (Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering) told me that he never read a book.

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] UEFI on SDD

2013-12-16 Thread Alex Pilon
To anybody on this list not already familiar with EFI or {Trusted,Secure} Boot, you may wish to read up on EFI if you'll configure a new consumer x86 system. I reference a few links I've vetted, below in case you don't know where to start. I've kept you CCed for that. On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at