[Discuss] UEFI
Matthew Gillen
me at mattgillen.net
Wed Oct 23 01:37:44 EDT 2013
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
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