New UEFI guide on the wiki

[Pete Travis]

On Feb 3, 2014 9:31 PM, "Adam Williamson" <awilliam at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> 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
> Fedora QA Community Monkey
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>
>

I've done it, and it was indeed an angry and detailed process, so I decided
it probably wasn't something I wanted to advise people to do.

--Pete
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