On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 10:03 AM, Paul Gideon Dann <pdgiddie@xxxxxxxxx>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@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? > > 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! -- mike c
