Re: Clean install or update
Hi.
On Wed, Jul 28, 2021 at 06:25:50AM -0400, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote:
> > 2. Force it to use UEFI and not the BIOS & bios-grub
> Again clueless of why you say that.
> Other than some rack server,
Modern x86 servers happen to use UEFI too.
Modern ARM64 servers do it too.
Things are different for POWERs and UltraSPARCs.
> many people if not most of them, will run UEFI
True for x86. Most of the time that's because the manufacturer does not
give such people a choice - it's either UEFI, or CSM (aka BIOS) with
severely reduced functions. How would you like your videocard
functioning only if OS is booted via UEFI, for instance?
False for consumers' ARM and MIPS. With rare exceptions, UEFI is
non-existant there.
> and some system even only use UEFI (Mac for example,
True, although I don't have a personal experience with them.
> Sun machine too).
Clarification needed.
UltraSPARCs (which are true Suns) used and continue to use OBP, which
has nothing in common with UEFI. And it does not really matter which
UltraSPARC it is - Oracle's or Fujustu's.
Solaris x86, which is no true Solaris by any means of course, can be
booted by both BIOS and UEFI, because it uses the same GRUB as Linux
does. Running on x86 applies the same restrictions as discussed above.
Reco
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