How to disable UEFI ??

[Stephen Partington]

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 <eric.oyen at icloud.com> 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 <mailinglists at mattcrews.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> On May 2, 2018 9:19 PM, <joe at 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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