On 1/5/2013 12:23 PM, Mike Cloaked wrote: > > Does anyone have experience with such a UEFI system on this list? Apart > from the info on the arch wiki and the install wiki info (which I have been > reading), are systems like this reliable once installed? Does the routine > pacman update process for kernels lead to issues requiring manual > intervention with EFI/GPT or it is as generally reliable as BIOS/MBR? I am responding to this email from a Windows system. The reason it is a Windows system is that I was unable to find *any* distribution, even those that claim to support EFI in their installers, that in fact successfully installs on this particular system. The problem is not, by the way, the weirdness with keys; Linux just doesn't boot following the installation. grub-efi isn't getting it right. There are instructions for dealing with EFI on the Arch Wiki. They did not work for me. It's too bad, because from everything I can see, EFI and GPT are not, in principle, such bad ideas. But right now, trying to get Linux to run on such a system is problematic. *If* you have the option to choose between EFI and legacy BIOS on your hardware, your situation is different from mine. But I would suggest that you need to *really* understand EFI and have debugging tools for it available.
