Re: Re: Linux on EFI systems
By: Dreamer to Poindexter Fortran on Thu Apr 10 2014 11:26 am
> -=> Poindexter Fortran wrote to Dreamer <=-
>
> PF> Re: Linux on EFI systems
> PF> By: Dreamer to All on Wed Apr 09 2014 10:00 pm
>
> Dr> Anyhow, anyone else have any experience with Linux EFI installs?
> Dr> Perhaps my experience was just an example of the three P's?
>
> PF> Check the BIOS, there may be an option to toggle between legacy boot
> PF> and EFI. All of my recent Dells (XPS 13/14/15, Latitude E7240/E7440,
> PF> and the Optiplex 9020 desktop) have that option.
>
> True, but I wasn't talking about a BIOS install. I could have done a
> legacy install, but I wanted to keep Windows 8, which meant keeping the GPT
> partition layout instead of a DOS layout, which means no standard install.
>
> Only reason I'm keeping Win8 is...well, you never know when something could
> come in handy down the road, and why trash something that expensive? :P
Windows 8 includes Hyper-V, so you might be better off running Linux in a VM
rather than dual-booting. That's what I'm doing (with Windows 8.1 64-bit) to
run a 32-bit version of Windows 7 (in a VM) - works great.
digital man
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