Hi Chris, Tim, Sorry for the late response. Thanks for the explanations. On Sat, Jul 06, 2019 at 03:18:59PM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: > On Sat, Jul 6, 2019 at 1:18 PM Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Making things worse, many manufacturers treat their customers like > children, and have decided to refer to UEFI firmware as BIOS. So when > you go looking for firmware updates, you're likely to find them listed > as BIOS updates. It's just terrible. They should have just called it > what it is, firmware, from the outset and not caused end users to be > confused with either a new term, UEFI, let alone by interchanging two > different things, BIOS and UEFI, as if they are the same thing. But > that's where it is. Indeed, my Gigabyte firmware is from 2018, and everywhere in the UI it says "BIOS"! I looked (not very thoroughly), but couldn't find a toggle to reenable UEFI. I guess I need to do a bit of searching on the weekend, it's probably deep somewhere in the menu. > > But depending on the age of the computer, make and model, there might > be hints somewhere that'll fairly conclusively confirm/deny if that > model has UEFI firmware or BIOS, and then also how to confirm whether > the faux-BIOS is enabled. For sure if the /sys/firmware/efi/efivars > directory exists, it's UEFI. I'm guessing that's dynamic, present only if you boot with UEFI? It's not on my system. Thanks again, cheers, -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
