On 02/18/2013 07:30 AM, Kevin Wilson wrote:
Hi,
Is there a way to know without entering BIOS, whether your machine supoports
UEFI or not ? I would appreciate if someone with a machine with UEFI
support will check whether when running "dmidecode" you see UEFI in the
output.
Regards,
Kevin Wilson
See next to last line:
$ sudo dmidecode
# dmidecode 2.11
# SMBIOS entry point at 0xd9e59698
SMBIOS 2.7 present.
35 structures occupying 1523 bytes.
Table at 0xD9E3D018.
Handle 0x0000, DMI type 0, 24 bytes
BIOS Information
Vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
Version: P01-A1
Release Date: 03/12/2012
Address: 0xF0000
Runtime Size: 64 kB
ROM Size: 3072 kB
Characteristics:
PCI is supported
APM is supported
BIOS is upgradeable
BIOS shadowing is allowed
Boot from CD is supported
Selectable boot is supported
BIOS ROM is socketed
EDD is supported
5.25"/1.2 MB floppy services are supported (int 13h)
3.5"/720 kB floppy services are supported (int 13h)
3.5"/2.88 MB floppy services are supported (int 13h)
Print screen service is supported (int 5h)
8042 keyboard services are supported (int 9h)
Serial services are supported (int 14h)
Printer services are supported (int 17h)
ACPI is supported
USB legacy is supported
BIOS boot specification is supported
Targeted content distribution is supported
UEFI is supported
BIOS Revision: 4.6
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-- Steve