Steve Litt said: > I've heard anecdotes of the UEFI system writing to persistant memory on > the motherboard in a way that an app misusing UEFI could brick the > motherboard. Therefore, the only time I use UEFI is when I absolutely > must have Windows on the laptop, and the Windows that came on the > laptop requires UEFI.
Steve, I did some follow-up on this issue, and I see what you're talking about. It's an issue that effects some Samsung laptops, but may affect others: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1234580 Good to know about, and somewhat cools my enthusiasm for UEFI and GPT. But we'll still probably have to learn to live with UEFI/GPT, because it's now the default setup on so many machines, especially laptops, and there are those who think they must have Windows installed alongside Linux. Though I live without Windows just fine, I need to help others who still haven't quite kicked the habit. So I'll continue my experiment with UEFI/GPT dual-booting, and hopefully will find a way to make it work with Devuan.
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