On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 5:22 PM, Curtis Shimamoto < sugar.and.scruffy@gmail.com> wrote:
On 01/08/13 at 09:38am, Mike Cloaked wrote:
On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 9:35 AM, Paul Gideon Dann <pdgiddie@gmail.com> wrote:
On Monday 07 Jan 2013 18:46:14 LANGLOIS Olivier PIS -EXT wrote:
To be honest, I had 0 problem with installation and UEFI usage. Beside installation, there is very few noticeable difference between BIOS and UEFI. I have insisted to use it just because I had a MB capable of UEFI.
If you want to try UEFI, my advice is. Go for it, there is not much risk to do it but do not expect a big change. This won't shake your world!
Seconded. It makes very little difference, if any. The only time I've noticed is when I wanted to upgrade the laptop's firmware, and getting a FreeDOS image to boot was trickier than with BIOS.
Paul
That's interesting - though I guess it is possible to change the BIOS setting just to boot a freedos usbkey to reflash the firmware and then reset to uefi again to boot back into the normal system again?
-- mike c
Yes, this is what I have done in the past. I actually I just left UEFI and bios enabled for some time. My computer gives the option of whether to give preference to UEFI or legacy bios if both are present.
Recently, though I turned off legacy bios, though I am not sure why or if I gain anything from it.
-- Curtis Shimamoto sugar.and.scruffy@gmail.com
Yes I had seen about the uefi as first call with legacy as backup option - actually I looked up the firmware update, and there seems to be an option to enable F7 to flash bios from the advanced bios options for my motherboard - and in principle having the bios .bio update file on a uskbey whilst booting with this option enabled should allow a very simple way to update the firmware without further ado, and does not even need a freedos key - just the file on a fat32 partitioned key - I had better start putting the hardware together so I can start doing all this! -- mike c