On Sat, 2013-06-15 at 16:28 -0400, Chris Murphy wrote: > On Jun 15, 2013, at 3:37 PM, moshe nahmias <moshegrey@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > BTW, if it's possible to do dual boot, one install with bios and the other with EFI then I can do it and then I will be able to do it for much longer since I have a bios installation now that works. > > It's not advised to run CSM (BIOS) because in many (all?) > implementations AHCI isn't fully supported so you get SATA devices in > a fallback IDE mode and therefore poor performance. My Asus motherboard does AHCI on CSM just fine. > Also ACPI is limited so battery life of the laptop isn't so great. Do you have a source for this? I did a CSM install on my new laptop because doing a native UEFI install was a pain, and I haven't noticed any particular issues with drive performance or battery life. -- 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
