UEFI support from command line

[Kevin Wilson]

Thanks Steven.
Following Bill Davidsen comment - did you ran it on a machine
where UEFI is not active ? And if the answer is yes, do you known what
do you get when you run it on a machine where
UEFI is active ?

regards,
Kevin

On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 12:11 AM, Steven Stern
<subscribed-lists at sterndata.com> wrote:
> On 02/18/2013 07:30 AM, Kevin Wilson wrote:
>> Hi,
>> Is there a way to know without entering BIOS, whether your machine supoports
>> UEFI or not ? I would appreciate if someone with a machine with UEFI
>> support will check whether when running "dmidecode" you see UEFI in the output.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Kevin Wilson
>>
> See next to last line:
>
> $ sudo dmidecode
> # dmidecode 2.11
> # SMBIOS entry point at 0xd9e59698
> SMBIOS 2.7 present.
> 35 structures occupying 1523 bytes.
> Table at 0xD9E3D018.
>
> Handle 0x0000, DMI type 0, 24 bytes
> BIOS Information
>         Vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
>         Version: P01-A1
>         Release Date: 03/12/2012
>         Address: 0xF0000
>         Runtime Size: 64 kB
>         ROM Size: 3072 kB
>         Characteristics:
>                 PCI is supported
>                 APM is supported
>                 BIOS is upgradeable
>                 BIOS shadowing is allowed
>                 Boot from CD is supported
>                 Selectable boot is supported
>                 BIOS ROM is socketed
>                 EDD is supported
>                 5.25"/1.2 MB floppy services are supported (int 13h)
>                 3.5"/720 kB floppy services are supported (int 13h)
>                 3.5"/2.88 MB floppy services are supported (int 13h)
>                 Print screen service is supported (int 5h)
>                 8042 keyboard services are supported (int 9h)
>                 Serial services are supported (int 14h)
>                 Printer services are supported (int 17h)
>                 ACPI is supported
>                 USB legacy is supported
>                 BIOS boot specification is supported
>                 Targeted content distribution is supported
>                 UEFI is supported
>         BIOS Revision: 4.6
>    // snip
>
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