On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 12:12:27PM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > | - CSM should only be needed if you boot MBR-style (i.e. not UEFI) > > This turns out not to be the case. > > CSM is a fake BIOS. It is used to implement things link BIOS service > calls. These are used by: > > - MBR boot loaders (lilo, grub-for-MBR) > > - old OSes (like DOS) > > - initialization code that might be present in som plug-in cards. > This initialization code was considered an extension of the > BIOS initialization code. I imagine that these cards are > all obsolete now. > > My comment left out the last case.
I definitely am trying to get UEFI to boot, not MBR, and while *NIX is an old OS in some sense it isn't the sense that matters here. So, I'll turn off CSM. Thanks! -- Peter King [email protected] Department of Philosophy 170 St. George Street #521 The University of Toronto (416)-946-3170 ofc Toronto, ON M5R 2M8 CANADA http://individual.utoronto.ca/pking/ ========================================================================= GPG keyID 0x7587EC42 (2B14 A355 46BC 2A16 D0BC 36F5 1FE6 D32A 7587 EC42) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 7587EC42
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