UEFI -

Greg Woods woods at ucar.edu
Mon Mar 2 22:51:50 UTC 2015


Because the motherboard *has* UEFI may not actually require you to *use*
it. Check and see if it has a legacy BIOS mode. If it does, you can use
that and keep going. If not, then using UEFI requires (at the least)
creation of a UEFI boot partition and changes to the bootloader
configuration.

--Greg


On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 3:42 PM, Bob Goodwin <bobgoodwin at wildblue.net> wrote:

>
> I had a failure last week and have just received a new motherboard to
> replace the old one. I see that it has a lot of wonderful features for
> Windows that I don't need, among them UEFI.
>
> Am I going to have trouble running Fedora 21 on it? I guess I need to know
> that before installing it. The instruction manual is of little help, mainly
> describes installing it as a Windows 8 system using the included
> installation disk, none of which I will ever see.
>
> Bob
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