oh yes.
then there are the more specialized distro's for specific purposes (including serving the blind). Sure, Ubuntu and Fedora are great, but sometimes overblown. I have 1 distro here (based on slack ware) that just won't function at all in a UEFI based system It won't run on this old mac nor will it boot on the windows laptop (even from a DVD or flash drive), yet on an older 10 year old desktop, it works great.
There are just some things to be said about having a BIOS that just works and doesn't need a partition on the HDD just to load secondary code.
and oh yes, did I also mention that without sighted assistance, I cannot even install a new blank HDD on a modern system? The reason, I need to issue a couple of commands inside the UEFI to properly prepare the disk for use. UGH! And yes, the UEFI consortium is still only responding with "form letter responses" on my inquiries about adding braille/speech support. And yes, if this sounds like a rant, it is, and I have good reason for it.
-eric
On May 5, 2018, at 10:59 AM, Steve Litt wrote:
> That's what I figured. Arch and Ubuntu are big, mainstream distros.
> Those whose needs are best served by lesser known distros that
> booted perfectly with mbr might have trouble if they haven't devoted
> many programmer hours to jumping through not only UEFI hoops, but also
> bad UEFI implementations from the hardware manufacturer.
>
> And, of course, Secure Boot hasn't even entered the discussion yet.
>
> SteveT
>
> On Fri, 4 May 2018 20:44:56 -0700
> Stephen Partington <cryptworks@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Same machine with Arch and Ubuntu.
>>
>> On Fri, May 4, 2018 at 7:58 PM, Steve Litt <slitt@troubleshooters.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, 03 May 2018 23:19:56 +0000
>>> Stephen Partington <cryptworks@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> 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
>>>
>>> Were you using one of the big distros? I'm pretty sure life with
>>> UEFI isn't as sanguine when you use one of the less used distros.
>>>
>>> SteveT
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