This is encouraging. What if any are the major issues to look out for with regard to UEFI support under Linux?
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Originally posted by Kristian Joensen View PostThis is encouraging. What if any are the major issues to look out for with regard to UEFI support under Linux?
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If you want to try UEFI the most secure way is to have got a backup of your firmware chip. Sometimes you can do that with the integrated flash utility. When you have it you could order in case of problems a correct replacement or the mac adress of your integrated nic will be a default one. If you manage to "kill" a laptop with uefi tests you should probably get a spi flashing device when it is not in warrenty. I needed a chip replacement already last year after some simple tests, so update firmware to latest version and hope that most bugs are already fixed (board used was Asus P8Z68-V with buggy firmware 3203). All Asus boards suffer from another cleanup UEFI entry error but there is a trick to avoid it when you use differnet upper/lowercase for the loader (efibootmgr -l) in case you really want to use different optionsets with one kernel as direct boot entry.
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you gotta try it
I've put together systems where all of the components individually were right off the RHEL supported list but when assembled together, no go. There are obscure interactions between kernel versions, motherboard chipsets and drive firmwares. Sometimes firmware upgrades fix problems and sometimes they break things. I've spent far too much time debugging these things trying to make a stable system. There is no rhyme or reason, only empirical results.
You actually have to plug all of those things together, install the OS and run some torture tests before you can call it "working".
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Blue-ray (yes, I did mean to type it like that, the colour has an 'e')
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Originally posted by DanL View PostThe marketing department doesn't always adhere to grammar (or logic).
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Originally posted by Kristian Joensen View Post
After all I think this is a very good choice. The hardware should all be working with Linux if you install the NVIDIA proprietary driver for the graphics.Last edited by AlbertP; 24 January 2013, 10:03 AM.
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