On Thu, 2011-12-08 at 16:43 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > If you look around in the boot menu / BIOS configuration you may find an > > option to configure this, but as I said, it's different on all systems. > > On mine, for instance, the boot menu lists media that support EFI > > booting twice, one of the entries boots that medium via native EFI and > > the other does it via BIOS emulation. The default is BIOS emulation, on > > my system: I have to explicitly pick the EFI entry if I want to do a > > native EFI boot. > > Well if the manufacturer wants a default of EFI, who am I to argue? :) > > Um, I grew up with BIOS (well really before BIOS, I go back to teletypes > at 55 baud and GE Mark IVs and real Dartmouth BASIC), and EFI is 'new' > to me. Can you point me to a basic intro to it? Wikipedia's article is pretty solid: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Extensible_Firmware_Interface the official site is: http://www.uefi.org/home/ -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
