[WLUG] Installling Linux with UEFI?

[Pritpaul Mahal]

I've had no trouble getting UEFI (without secure boot) working on 2 different Dell laptops.  But then I refuse to use GRUB (of any variety, ever) in my personal life and for these installs didn't try to use a distro where the installer does all the bootloader setup.  If you're willing to do a deep dive and learn about it and do it yourself, I highly recommend http://www.rodsbooks.com/linux-uefi as a general reference and his rEFInd bootloader in particular.  IIRC I used it along with the kernel EFI stub.

--Pritpaul

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Jon DeVree <nuxi at vault24.org> wrote:

>On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 14:59:41 -0500, Jan Wolter wrote:
>> I've installed Linux on a lot of computers, which isn't much to boast
>> about because it's always been easy.
>> 
>> It's stopped being easy.
>> 
>
>Understatement of the year. At work we run on linux and I said that
>when
>I came up in the laptop replacement cycle I'd get a Dell and figure out
>how to do UEFI booting on linux. Then I'd get it working on our gear...
>
>I immediately put my laptop in BIOS boot mode and haven't even started.
>I'm just gonna pray that server gear continues having the "run in BIOS
>mode" setting for many years to come.
>
>When I played with it in a VM, it failed to boot and dropped to UEFI
>shell half of the time for no apparent reason.
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>Jon
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