>> because you are all asking for trivia:
>>
>> This is a ASUS N76V
>
> Bullshit. That is not trivia. That's the important bit.
>
>
Okay now that we know what model you have. I can tell you that it has a
legacy mode and boots OpenBSD just fine in that mode. You said that you
want to keep the recovery stuff from ASUS and that presumably is why you
want the laptop to remain using UEFI (I dont understand this but that's
your choice). So simple solution, remove the HD that the laptop shipped
with and throw it in a drawer to save. Put in a new 7200rpm drive and
switch it over to legacy. Far better to spend the 100ish bucks on a HD
then waste your time dealing with the UEFI crap.
The laptop has other major issues with the hybrid Intel/Nvidia graphics
though... I had one and got rid of it since it only played nice with
Windows 8 and sorta put up with Linux.
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