New UEFI guide on the wiki

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Tue Feb 4 04:31:37 UTC 2014


On Mon, 2014-02-03 at 20:14 -0800, Andrew Lutomirski wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 8:09 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com> wrote:
> > So, look what I wrote today:
> >
> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Unified_Extensible_Firmware_Interface
> >
> > (just plain https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/UEFI redirects to that page,
> > too).
> >
> > It's a (hopefully) not too long and not too technical help for
> > installing Fedora on UEFI systems. Should cover the 'greatest hits' that
> > show up in bug reports, forums and IRC the most.
> 
> That'll be very useful.  Thanks!
> 
> If you happen to know the magic incantations to turn an installed UEFI
> OS into a BIOS-bootable OS or vice versa, it would be great to have
> that in the wiki.
> 
> (This is a particular pain point for me -- my main development box was
> originally installed as BIOS, and I switched it to UEFI, and I'm sure
> I did it wrong because the boot process is impressively finicky.)

Erf. I haven't done that myself in anger, so I'd have to give it a shot
to give reliable instructions. My usual advice would be 'just reinstall
it', honestly...
-- 
Adam Williamson
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