On 05/28/2017 01:00 AM, Gene Heskett wrote:
Unforch, with that in the box, I'd have to buy another box to put the 7i90 and 7i42TA's in. And eventually I am out of space behind the lathe. Not to mention the board might be $65, but memory for it, and a psu that might fit in this nice new box, and I'm north of an additional $200 to switch back to a wintel system and a fight to get it installed with the UEFI bios. I thought of that when I bought an "up" board with a quad core atom on it, no bigger than the pi. But it comes with a UEFI bios enabled so you can only install windows 10 on it, and if you turn off the UEFI, you've bricked the SOB, and I am not about to throw another $350 in a jtag programmer and 50 more for the flashrom clipon just to rescue a 100 dollar board. UEFI is something microsoft shoved down our throats in another attempt to create a captive customer. Why the industry as a whole, didn't sue them out of existence is beyond me. They promised it could be turned off if you wanted to install something else, but they by damn didn't tell American Megatrends it had to work if it was turned off. Just one of the reasons there are only glass windows in this house. I'll stop before the air gets even bluer. Cheers, Gene Heskett
Never had any issues installing Linux of various flavors on a desktop or server with UEFI. Course I dealt mainly with Dell and HP servers and desktops. This was at work at the Lab. And this HP laptop I'm typing this email on has UEFI. Not sure why you need to disable the UEFI to attempt to install Linux. Methinks these injuries are mainly self-inflicted for no apparent reason.
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