Re: Avoiding restricted boot hardware
On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 12:28 PM, Dan Hitt <dan.hitt@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 8:58 AM, Lars Noodén <lars.nooden@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I'm reading that the restricted boot problems are far from solved and
>> that some of the early hardware [1] in particular objects to Linux. Can
>> anyone recommend brands or models of desktop (dinosaur) hardware that is
>> currently safe for Debian?
>
> Lars --- we are using Gateways, but there's a song and a dance to get them
> to boot from a usb stick. (You have to get into the bios as you boot up,
> set secure boot to disabled, and csm to always. Just getting into the bios
> is aggravating, because they really like to boot into windows 8, so you
> have to start hitting the delete key just as soon and often as possible.
> And these crazy acronyms like 'csm' --- how can you guess it.)
CSM = compatibility <something> module
They could've called it "BIOS mode" or legacy mode"... :(
If you turn off Win8 "fast startup", you have more time to go into the
EFI menu mode (but it's still a pain!).
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