On 10/27/2019 09:31 AM, deloptes wrote:
Richard Owlett wrote:
Would what you do explicitly depend on EFI?
I have a collection of elderly machines, some with only legacy
BIOS.
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Regarding older hardware, it might be that the kernel does not support this
or that. You know Debian does not support CPU<=586 and might be that some
drivers are missing, but when you run from the USB, you will know for sure.
With my eclectic hardware, processor type and BIOS are independent
variables. I do run the i386 flavor of Debian more out of inertia than
necessity. I believe one important machine has only legacy BIOS. I have
not considered moving to EFI as I am not aware that it would have any
personal benefit and time spent on learning curve would be better spent
elsewhere.
YMMV ;/
Thank you.
