I have had no issues with UEFI and Linux. The only time I have arguments with it is surrounding the secure boot process and playing nice with windows On Thu, May 3, 2018, 4:00 PM Eric Oyen wrote: > I suspect that he would like to remove at least 1.5 layers of kernel code > between the OS and the hardware. > > Honestly, I really wish the UEFI consortium would get with the program and > compile in some BrltTY support (it's easy enough to do considering that > BrltTY is lightweight, can have it's libs compiled in and should work under > the UEFI Linux-like environment. > > Believe me, having braille or speech available right from the POST would > greatly enhance my ability to deal with specific hardware issues that crop > up from time to time. > > -eric > > On May 3, 2018, at 3:35 PM, Stephen Partington wrote: > > Bios is older than me. Is there a specific reason you want to disable > UEFI? > > On Thu, May 3, 2018, 3:22 PM Matthew Crews > wrote: > >> >> On May 2, 2018 9:19 PM, wrote: >> >> > How can I disable UEFI on my Thinkpad T430 >> > so I can install Linux Mint 18? >> > >> > I've search the net and tried numerous "solutions" >> > but can't get any of them to work. >> >> My gut tells me that you can't on your specific machine. Most motherboard >> vendors have deprecated BIOS support in favor of UEFI, and Intel has >> specifically said that BIOS will not be supported in 2020. Best get used to >> the idea of running with UEFI, as much as we all hate it. >> >> Perhaps what you should be looking to do is disable SecureBoot, and then >> looking into installing Linux Mint 18 in UEFI mode? I'd wager that the MInt >> installer supports UEFI. Worst case you install Ubuntu or one of its >> variants, they definitely support UEFI. >> >> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss