On Wed, 2014-02-05 at 01:41 -0500, David wrote:
On 2/5/2014 12:52 AM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Tue, 2014-02-04 at 21:47 -0500, David wrote:
>> On 2/4/2014 5:41 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
>>> On Tue, 2014-02-04 at 14:29 -0800, Andrew Lutomirski wrote:
>>>
>>>> and my suggestion is now to just create both partitions when
>>>> installing to GPT. Presumably if firmware can handle a GPT disk at
>>>> all, it won't care whether it happens to contain an ESP unless
it's
>>>> actually trying to boot it using UEFI.
>>>
>>> You're making a fatal mistake: assuming some kind of sense on the part
>>> of firmware authors. ;)
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> I always enjoy these UEFI threads. Not. EfI has been a
>> replacement-in-progress for the old BIOS for a long time.
>> U(universal)EFI has been around a while as an upgrade for EFI. Someday,
>> perhaps soon, BIOS will die.
>>
>> Which means? If Linux can not play nice with UEFI then Linux will die
>> with BIOS.
>
> Er. What's your point? This whole thread started from a rather extensive
> guide to installing Fedora on UEFI which I wrote. We're now discussing
> rather pie-in-the-sky stuff that doesn't have much to do with what you
> posted.
Sure it does. In a way. Whenever UEFI is mentioned there is a panic
in
the ranks. Windows!! Windows!! Microsoft!! Microsoft!!
Which is crap. There is no real problem. You need to fix the conspiracy
crap. Fix it? Or live/die with it.
What? I didn't say anything about Microsoft. I opined that firmware
vendors couldn't find their rear ends with two hands and a map, which
isn't a particularly controversial opinion among anyone who's had to
deal with their work.
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