[GTALUG] New Build Computer?

[Peter King]

On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 12:12:27PM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:
 
> | - CSM should only be needed if you boot MBR-style (i.e. not UEFI)
> 
> This turns out not to be the case.
> 
> CSM is a fake BIOS.  It is used to implement things link BIOS service
> calls.  These are used by:
> 
> - MBR boot loaders (lilo, grub-for-MBR)
> 
> - old OSes (like DOS)
> 
> - initialization code that might be present in som plug-in cards.
>   This initialization code was considered an extension of the
>   BIOS initialization code.  I imagine that these cards are
>   all obsolete now.
> 
> My comment left out the last case.

I definitely am trying to get UEFI to boot, not MBR, and while *NIX is an
old OS in some sense it isn't the sense that matters here.  So, I'll turn
off CSM.  Thanks!

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