Re: How to disable UEFI ??

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Author: Stephen Partington
Date:  
To: Matthew Crews, Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: Re: How to disable UEFI ??
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.
>
>
>
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