Re: UEFI experience - recommendations needed.

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On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 9:35 AM, Paul Gideon Dann <pdgiddie@xxxxxxxxx> 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?

-- 
mike c


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