UEFI Notebook

[Len Philpot]

For what it's worth, I recently went through this myself. I bought an ASUS
K55N with Win8 on it, UEFI and all that. I knew nothing (and still know
little) about the intricacies of UEFI, but did discover the following --

I had to enable "CSM mode" in firmware. Your laptop may have another term for
it. This enabled me to choose from a non-EFI boot device, which was critical
to getting the F18 DVD to boot directly. There are apparently ways to boot
from an EFI USB stick, then run anaconda on the DVD from there. I was finally
able to boot from USB, but never worked out the exact device/command to get
anaconda running.

I had planned on leaving the EFI partition in place in case I ever wanted to
go back, but after trying the F18 textonly install (graphical installer kept
locking up), it ...ahem... conveniently removed it for me. Be careful if you
try the text mode installer: There are few choices and little confirmation of
what it's about to do. After the bare-bones core install completed, I was then
able to re-run the graphical installer to completion, blowing away what had
just been installed.

Also - Just a note about F18 installs in general... You'll probably want to
get familiar with yum once installed, since the installer offers virtually no
choice in package selection prior to installation. 'yum groupinstall' is your
friend.  :-)

There's a thread I started on Fedora Forums about it:
http://www.forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=290423

HTH.
--
Len Philpot
len at philpot.org
http://lphilpot.zenfolio.com
http://www.mostimportantthing.org 

On 05/05/2013 at 08:03 AM, Martín Marqués <martin.marques at gmail.com> wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I have a new Acer Aspire One with Windows 8. The question that came up
>was when I realized that it had UEFI instead of BIOS (which I read, is
>what we're going to have to deal with from now on).
>
>What precautions should I take with UEFI? Disable the Secure Boot?
>(Read that I have to disable it to get grub to work)?
>
>Just now I'm getting on top of this technology, but maybe some of you
>guys had experience with this and can give me some hints!
>
>--
>Martín Marqués
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>DBA, Programador, Administrador
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