[arch-general] UEFI experience - recommendations needed.

[Paul Gideon Dann]

On Tuesday 08 Jan 2013 09:38:58 Mike Cloaked wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 9:35 AM, Paul Gideon Dann <pdgiddie at 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?

Yes, absolutely.  That would be admitting defeat, though!

Also, when I first set up the machine, there were still some kernel / driver 
issues with UEFI, but that settled down at around the 3.0 kernel release.

Paul