On Wednesday 21 Oct 2015 11:23:46 Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Indeed, on The Register the other day, in a comments sections, somebody > described how he had a dual boot GNU/Linux Windows setup, and after a > Windows update, the GNU/Linux wouldn't boot at all. He suspected that > the Windows update had tampered with the UEFI CMOS settings somehow.
I wouldn't think that MSWindows would interfere in the UEFI settings and enable Secure Boot, but it may have messed up the boot loader settings - esp. if the poster had set up the MSWindows boot manager to chainload their Linux OS. > Do modern motherboards still allow you the option of running under the > traditional BIOS? I've not seen this mentioned in any of the motherboard > descriptions recently. From what I have seen there is a conventional BIOS compatibility setting, to allow booting vanilla MBR disks. -- Regards, Mick
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