New UEFI guide on the wiki

[Adam Williamson]

On Wed, 2014-02-05 at 01:41 -0500, David wrote:
> On 2/5/2014 12:52 AM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > 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.

> Sure it does. In a way. Whenever UEFI is mentioned there is a panic in
> the ranks. Windows!! Windows!! Microsoft!! Microsoft!!
> 
> Which is crap. There is no real problem. You need to fix the conspiracy
> crap.  Fix it? Or live/die with it.

What? I didn't say anything about Microsoft. I opined that firmware
vendors couldn't find their rear ends with two hands and a map, which
isn't a particularly controversial opinion among anyone who's had to
deal with their work.
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