[arch-general] UEFI experience - recommendations needed.

[Curtis Shimamoto]

On 01/08/13 at 09:38am, Mike Cloaked wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 9:35 AM, Paul Gideon Dann <pdgiddie at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Monday 07 Jan 2013 18:46:14 LANGLOIS Olivier PIS -EXT wrote:
> > > To be honest, I had 0 problem with installation and UEFI usage. Beside
> > > installation, there is very few noticeable difference between BIOS and
> > > UEFI. I have insisted to use it just because I had a MB capable of UEFI.
> > >
> > > If you want to try UEFI, my advice is. Go for it, there is not much risk
> > to
> > > do it but do not expect a big change. This won't shake your world!
> >
> > Seconded.  It makes very little difference, if any.  The only time I've
> > noticed is when I wanted to upgrade the laptop's firmware, and getting a
> > FreeDOS image to boot was trickier than with BIOS.
> >
> > Paul
> >
> 
> That's interesting - though I guess it is possible to change the BIOS
> setting just to boot a freedos usbkey to reflash the firmware and then
> reset to uefi again to boot back into the normal system again?
> 
> -- 
> mike c

Yes, this is what I have done in the past.  I actually I just left UEFI
and bios enabled for some time.  My computer gives the option of whether
to give preference to UEFI or legacy bios if both are present.  

Recently, though I turned off legacy bios, though I am not sure why or if
I gain anything from it.

-- 
Curtis Shimamoto
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