Re: Install Debian on a UEFI-motherboard ?
On Tue, 11 Sep 2012 17:24:23 +0200, Tom Rausner wrote:
> tir, 11 09 2012 kl. 14:35 +0000, skrev Camaleón:
>
>> What kind of errors?
>
> Corrupt data
The logs or messages just said "corrupt data"? :-?
Have you considered the optical media could be broken? I say this because
the symptoms for a faulty motherboard are usually rather different.
>> How did you reach to that conclusion? Maybe is simply a bad cabling or
>> almost-death port :-?
>
> I've made sure all cables was OK. I'm not sure what you mean by the
> "almost-death port"-statement, so that must be something I haven't
> cheked ;-)
An sata (or ata) port of the board could gone bad.
I once had a problem with and ide disk drive that was giving me weird
messages when copying to/from it so I firstly thought the hard disk was
broken but as soon as I removed the disk and attached to an external USB
case it started working like a charm: it was not the disk but the
internal ide port.
>> Do you have in mind a specific motherboard model?
>
> Probably ASRock Z77 Extreme4
Asrock? Are you sure? O:-)
>
>> I don't think UEFI is now the only option available, most of the
>> motherboard manufacturers (MSI, Gigabyte, Asus...) provide a dual boot
>> manager (BIOS/UEFI) for compatibility issues.
>
> Yes, but I just wanted to be sure there wasn't any hidden issues.
Then consider a motherboard that explicitely supports the old BIOS system.
Greetings,
--
Camaleón
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