<html><head/><body><html><head></head><body>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 <a href="http://www.rodsbooks.com/linux-uefi">http://www.rodsbooks.com/linux-uefi</a> as a general reference and his rEFInd bootloader in particular. IIRC I used it along with the kernel EFI stub.<br>
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Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">Jon DeVree <nuxi@vault24.org> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap:break-word; font-family: sans-serif; margin-top: 0px">On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 14:59:41 -0500, Jan Wolter wrote:<br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;">I've installed Linux on a lot of computers, which isn't much to boast<br />about because it's always been easy.<br /><br />It's stopped being easy.</blockquote><br /><br />Understatement of the year. At work we run on linux and I said that when<br />I came up in the laptop replacement cycle I'd get a Dell and figure out<br />how to do UEFI booting on linux. Then I'd get it working on our gear...<br /><br />I immediately put my laptop in BIOS boot mode and haven't even started.<br />I'm just gonna pray that server gear continues having the "run in BIOS<br />mode" setting for many years to come.<br /><br />When I played with it in a VM, it failed to boot and dropped to UEFI<br />shell half of the time for no apparent reason.</pre></blockquote></div></body></html></body></html>