On Wed 16 May 2018 at 00:35:33 (+0200), Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> Le 15/05/2018 à 03:23, David Wright a écrit :
> >
> >In this particular instance (the Lenovo), its PDF says:
> (...)
> > The default boot mode for your computer is UEFI mode. If you need to
> > install a legacy operating syste
Le 15/05/2018 à 03:23, David Wright a écrit :
In this particular instance (the Lenovo), its PDF says:
(...)
The default boot mode for your computer is UEFI mode. If you need to
install a legacy operating system, such as Windows (that is, any operating
system before Windows 8)
On Mon 14 May 2018 at 23:29:43 (+0200), Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> Le 14/05/2018 à 02:02, David Wright a écrit :
> >On Sun 13 May 2018 at 19:08:48 (+0200), Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> >>
> >>Most of my early experience with UEFI boot comes from a rather old
> >>Intel motherboard. Beside crippled UEFI su
On Mon 14 May 2018 at 11:56:11 (-0400), Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > Yes, documentation of firmware is almost unknown in my experience
> > (since probably 30 years ago). That's why I took the least invasive
>
> It's documented to the extent that it says "implements UEFI" and that
> UEFI is documented
Chris Ramsden wrote:
> On 2018-05-14 01:21, songbird wrote:
>> Pascal Hambourg wrote:
>> ...
>>> I agree with the author. If you want to keep the existing EFI Windows
>>> installation and have a convenient dual boot with GRUB, you'll have to
>>> set up your favourite distribution to boot in EFI m
Le 14/05/2018 à 02:02, David Wright a écrit :
On Sun 13 May 2018 at 19:08:48 (+0200), Pascal Hambourg wrote:
Most of my early experience with UEFI boot comes from a rather old
Intel motherboard. Beside crippled UEFI support (no UEFI boot from
USB or SATA in AHCI mode), it had a couple of annoyi
> Yes, documentation of firmware is almost unknown in my experience
> (since probably 30 years ago). That's why I took the least invasive
It's documented to the extent that it says "implements UEFI" and that
UEFI is documented.
>> Same here (basically for the same reason: the behavior of the firm
On 2018-05-14 14:55, David Wright wrote:
> Would I be correct in thinking that the BIOS POST boot screen is
> what you get when you hit F12 sufficiently quickly after switch-on?
> So are you choosing between UEFI and Legacy (compatibility) mode.
> (I would like to know how Dell handles what I've be
On Mon 14 May 2018 at 09:14:23 (-0400), Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > That said, there are other statements that are odd:
>
> Not sure what you find odd about them:
>
> > "I really can’t recommend strongly enough that you do not attempt
> > to mix UEFI-native and BIOS-compatible booting of
>
On Mon 14 May 2018 at 13:28:56 (+0100), Chris Ramsden wrote:
> On 2018-05-14 01:21, songbird wrote:
> > Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> > ...
> >> I agree with the author. If you want to keep the existing EFI Windows
> >> installation and have a convenient dual boot with GRUB, you'll have to
> >> set up
> That said, there are other statements that are odd:
Not sure what you find odd about them:
> "I really can’t recommend strongly enough that you do not attempt
> to mix UEFI-native and BIOS-compatible booting of
> permanently-installed operating systems on the same computer, and
>
On 2018-05-14 01:21, songbird wrote:
> Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> ...
>> I agree with the author. If you want to keep the existing EFI Windows
>> installation and have a convenient dual boot with GRUB, you'll have to
>> set up your favourite distribution to boot in EFI mode. If you want to
>> go
Pascal Hambourg wrote:
...
> I agree with the author. If you want to keep the existing EFI Windows
> installation and have a convenient dual boot with GRUB, you'll have to
> set up your favourite distribution to boot in EFI mode. If you want to
> go back to legacy boot, including for Windows, yo
On Sun 13 May 2018 at 19:08:48 (+0200), Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> Le 13/05/2018 à 17:18, David Wright a écrit :
> >On Fri 11 May 2018 at 15:13:04 (-0500), Kent West wrote:
> >>
> >>That's good to know. I guess my source material (
> >>https://www.happyassassin.net/2014/01/25/uefi-boot-how-does-that-
Le 13/05/2018 à 17:18, David Wright a écrit :
On Fri 11 May 2018 at 15:13:04 (-0500), Kent West wrote:
That's good to know. I guess my source material (
https://www.happyassassin.net/2014/01/25/uefi-boot-how-does-that-actually-work-then/)
is wrong. Or I misunderstood it.
While a lot of the de
On Fri 11 May 2018 at 15:13:04 (-0500), Kent West wrote:
> On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 2:59 PM, Pascal Hambourg
> wrote:
>
> > Le 11/05/2018 à 20:33, Kent West a écrit :
> >
> >>
> >> I learned that EFI boot drives need to have a GPT partition table. On a
> >>
> >
> > This is not correct. The UEFI sp
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