[arch-general] UEFI experience - recommendations needed.

[Mike Cloaked]

On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 10:03 AM, Paul Gideon Dann <pdgiddie at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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
>

If I can boot a freedos bootable usbkey under uefi and do the firmware
update flash that way it would be great!  I will try that as it will be
around the first thing I need to do before partitioning the drives and then
installing arch.... should be interesting!


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mike c