The only issue I have with UEFI is that according to a website, that if you disable UEFI the installed Windows 8 will refuse to run. But, I don't know how reliable that information is. For the next installfest in December, we will not have a Fedora or SuSE version that is UEFI compliant (Fedora 18 is now about December 15). I think that Ubuntu 12.10 should work. So, if we want to dual boot Windows 8 and Fedora 17, we will probably want to disable UEFI. However, I doubt we will see a Windows 8 system on December 8, so this might be moot, but we need to be prepared since Windows 8 is now shipping.
On 11/04/2012 06:42 AM, John Abreau wrote: > I'm not really clear on the point you're trying to make in the context of > this thread. > Jerry is basically saying we need to be knowledgeable about UEFI for our > InstallFests > in case attendees seeking help installing Linux on their machines are getting > tripped up > by it. User incompetence is certainly one possible way to get tripped up, but > are you > seriously trying to argue that volunteers who plan to help attendees install > linux should > absolutely *not* try to become knowledgeable about UEFI? > > > > Sent from my iPad > > On Nov 3, 2012, at 5:14 PM, Rich Pieri <richard.pi...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Sat, 03 Nov 2012 15:06:24 -0400 >> Jerry Feldman <g...@blu.org> wrote: >> >>> The resource I looked at specifically stated that Windows 8 had to be >>> reinstalled. In any case, since I have not seen a Windows 8/UEFI >>> system, this discussion has been useful. >> What I have heard about Secure Boot interfering with Windows startup >> has been due entirely to user incompetence. It can see it as possible >> given the chain of trust in the Windows 8 startup sequence but I would >> like to see verifiable steps to reproduce the problem. I don't buy into >> "a friend of mine said he had this problem" reports. >> >> -- >> Rich P. >> _______________________________________________ >> Discuss mailing list >> Discuss@blu.org >> http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@blu.org > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > > -- Jerry Feldman <g...@blu.org> Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id:3BC1EB90 PGP Key fingerprint: 49E2 C52A FC5A A31F 8D66 C0AF 7CEA 30FC 3BC1 EB90
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