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 May 2, 2018 9:19 PM, <joe@actionline.com> 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.
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