On Tue, Feb 04, 2014 at 02:45:29PM -0800, Andrew Lutomirski wrote: > On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 2:41 PM, Adam Williamson <awill...@redhat.com> wrote: > > You're making a fatal mistake: assuming some kind of sense on the part > > of firmware authors. ;) > > Not really -- I figure that either the firmware is only parsing the > protective MBR (in which case the existence of an ESP won't even be > detectable) or that the firmware actually supports UEFI, in which case > I'd be fairly impressed if it matters.
You're missing the not uncommon case of "UEFI firmware with CSM forcibly enabled and no UEFI boot option" which was much of the market between 2009 and 2011. These implementations will frequently understand GPT well enough to decide that a disk isn't BIOS bootable, but won't let you perform a UEFI boot instead. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
