New UEFI guide on the wiki

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Wed Feb 5 05:52:36 UTC 2014


On Tue, 2014-02-04 at 21:47 -0500, David wrote:
> On 2/4/2014 5:41 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > On Tue, 2014-02-04 at 14:29 -0800, Andrew Lutomirski wrote:
> > 
> >> and my suggestion is now to just create both partitions when
> >> installing to GPT.  Presumably if firmware can handle a GPT disk at
> >> all, it won't care whether it happens to contain an ESP unless it's
> >> actually trying to boot it using UEFI.
> > 
> > You're making a fatal mistake: assuming some kind of sense on the part
> > of firmware authors. ;)
> > 
> 
> 
> 
> I always enjoy these UEFI threads. Not. EfI has been a
> replacement-in-progress for the old BIOS for a long time.
> U(universal)EFI has been around a while as an upgrade for EFI. Someday,
> perhaps soon, BIOS will die.
> 
> Which means? If Linux can not play nice with UEFI then Linux will die
> with BIOS.

Er. What's your point? This whole thread started from a rather extensive
guide to installing Fedora on UEFI which I wrote. We're now discussing
rather pie-in-the-sky stuff that doesn't have much to do with what you
posted.
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