New computer, recommendations?

Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Mon Aug 13 16:10:23 UTC 2012


On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 11:22:38PM -0400, Peter King wrote:
> Out of curiosity: Did you use the UEFI "bios" on the board, or go for
> legacy-BIOS mode? And whichever path you took, was it straightforward?

I already had a debian install on the disks and it booted up just fine,
so it is using legacy bios boot mode with grub2.  I am sure I could
install the efi version of grup2 and boot direct.

The board certainly uses UEFI, but it does support legacy boot mode
as well.

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