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Apparently I dropped the list on my response. On Oct 23, 2013 6:10 AM, "Gregory Boyce" <gboyce at badbelly.com> wrote: > UEFI requires a GPT partition table rather than msdos, so migrating an > existing OS installation may not work so well. GPT means requiring grub2 > as well. > On Oct 23, 2013 1:37 AM, "Matthew Gillen" <me at mattgillen.net> wrote: > >> I realized that my home computers are getting a little long in the >> tooth, and I'm looking to build a new one (or two). >> >> A lot of new motherboards come with UEFI BIOSes. Does this mean >> anything to me in terms of linux? I'm pretty sure I can put it in >> 'legacy mode' to disable whatever "protection" it's supposed to offer. >> But did pretty much every distro get a signed bootloader so disabling >> isn't necessary? >> >> I do intend to dual boot fedora/windows 7 (I have no intention of ever >> going to 8). Is there any advantage to leaving UEFI enabled? >> >> I haven't built my own computer in so long I haven't kept up on stuff >> like this. >> >> Has anyone tried to take an existing linux system (non-UEFI) and move it >> over to new hardware (specifically, UEFI-enabled)? >> >> TIA, >> Matt >> _______________________________________________ >> Discuss mailing list >> Discuss at blu.org >> http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss >> >
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