Catherine Gramze wrote: > I intend to build a computer for the specific purpose of running > Debian. I have had a bad experience with a store-bought computer, > which seemed to be wholly unable to boot to anything but Windows 8 - > there was no option in the BIOS to boot to the hard drive, or even > to the EFI partition, but only to the Windows Boot Manager. Even > with Secure Boot turned off. It looks like you ran into the MS Window 8 Restricted Boot problem. http://www.fsf.org/search?SearchableText=secure+boot > So, I am looking for recommendations on hardware, particularly > motherboards, known to play nicely with Debian and boot > consistently. Building my own system is not new to me, but something > I have not done for 10 years or so, so the appropriate BIOS settings > on the new EFI and UEFI mobos are unknown to me. All advice is > solicited. Check the dates on these older postings (time flies and the best hardware moves along) but here are two references: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2012/10/msg01189.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2013/04/msg00180.html Bob
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