Re: on the verge of shopping for new desktop hardware, recommendations?

[songbird <songbird@anthive.com>]

Kenneth Parker wrote:
...
> I was dragged, "kicking and screaming" to UEFI booting.  But, now that I'm
> here, it's "sort of" grown on me.
>
> What helped me, a lot, is a package called Refind.  It's available on
> Debian, through normal Apt-Get, though it's good to, carefully read the
> Documentation before Installing.

  some motherboards have issues.  i just replaced a motherboard
and had it boot with grub instead of refind.  i expected refind.
i reinstalled refind hoping that would take care of it, nope.  i'm
not about to remove grub as i'm not sure i want to mess things up
that ways.  i should update my netinst image and make sure it 
boots from the USB stick before i try anything like that.

  apparently Gigabyte has/had some strange ideas about UEFI.
sadly i didn't know this and couldn't shop other than through
the phone line talking to someone so i had to rely upon them
selecting a motherboard for me.  don't really want to sent it
back either.

  now that i'm back on-line i see there is some words on the
refind site about this type of problem, but i'm not confident
enough with the suggestions to try them and i don't really have
the time either so i may not get back to this until next winter.

  the previous board i had by Asrock didn't have any problems
at all booting in either legacy or UEFI and didn't have troubles
with USB devices either.  i'm not so sure about this board.


  songbird