Re: [tlug] UEFI and

[Scott Robbins <scottro@example.com>]

On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 10:07:25AM -0400, jep200404@example.com wrote:
> On Sun, 23 Sep 2012 09:12:59 -0400, Scott Robbins <scottro@example.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 08:15:36AM -0400, jep200404@example.com wrote:
> 
> > > Have fun with UEFI. 
> > 
> > It may not be so bad.  Recently, one of our developers got a new Dell
> > desktop, an Optiplex 
> 
> > I ran the 12.04 install and grub failed to install.  The BIOS was set to
> > legacy.  Just out of curiosity (this wasn't an urgent thing and was
> > something I was doing while doing other things), I changed BIOS to UEFI and
> > ran the install again. It installed and booted without issue.
> 
> I'm curious how well live media versions of miscellaneous OSs 
> boot on UEFI computers. 

This was using Unetbootin, and I believe I chose the default, let it boot,
then clicked install Ubuntu.  So, the live version would have booted.


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