Re: UEFI support from command line

2013-02-22 Thread Kevin Wilson
Hi, What do you mean by telling if UEFI is active you can't run dmidecode. What happens when you run dmidecode on a console of a machine where UEFI is active? do you get an an error ? rgs Kevin On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 11:41 PM, Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com wrote: Kevin Wilson wrote: Hi, Is

Re: UEFI support from command line

2013-02-22 Thread Kevin Wilson
Thanks Steven. Following Bill Davidsen comment - did you ran it on a machine where UEFI is not active ? And if the answer is yes, do you known what do you get when you run it on a machine where UEFI is active ? regards, Kevin On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 12:11 AM, Steven Stern

Re: UEFI support from command line

2013-02-22 Thread Steven Stern
On 02/22/2013 07:38 AM, Kevin Wilson wrote: Thanks Steven. Following Bill Davidsen comment - did you ran it on a machine where UEFI is not active ? And if the answer is yes, do you known what do you get when you run it on a machine where UEFI is active ? I think UEFI is active, but I'm not

Re: UEFI support from command line

2013-02-22 Thread Rami Rosen
Steven, I believe that when EFI is enabled, dmesg | grep EFI should yield results. Is it Intel x86 (32 or 64 bit) based machine ? Because I see in the efi code this: ... pr_info(EFI v%u.%.02u by %s\n, ... http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c#L676 I believe it is so

Re: UEFI support from command line

2013-02-22 Thread Steven Stern
On 02/22/2013 07:53 AM, Rami Rosen wrote: Steven, I believe that when EFI is enabled, dmesg | grep EFI should yield results. Is it Intel x86 (32 or 64 bit) based machine ? Because I see in the efi code this: ... pr_info(EFI v%u.%.02u by %s\n, ...

Re: UEFI support from command line

2013-02-22 Thread Rami Rosen
Hi, Well, the first line, efi: EFI v2.31 by American Megatrends, is (almost for sure) from /arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c (assuming this is intel machine; you only replied that it is 64 bit machine, I assume that it is intel). I am not sure that this indeed says that the EFI is active. does

Re: UEFI support from command line

2013-02-22 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Rami Rosen wrote: Well, the first line, efi: EFI v2.31 by American Megatrends, is (almost for sure) from /arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c (assuming this is intel machine; you only replied that it is 64 bit machine, I assume that it is intel). I am not sure that this indeed says that the EFI is

Re: UEFI support from command line

2013-02-22 Thread Steven Stern
On 02/22/2013 08:46 AM, Michael Cronenworth wrote: Rami Rosen wrote: Well, the first line, efi: EFI v2.31 by American Megatrends, is (almost for sure) from /arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c (assuming this is intel machine; you only replied that it is 64 bit machine, I assume that it is intel). I

Re: UEFI support from command line

2013-02-19 Thread Bill Davidsen
Kevin Wilson wrote: Hi, Is there a way to know without entering BIOS, whether your machine supoports UEFI or not ? I would appreciate if someone with a machine with UEFI support will check whether when running dmidecode you see UEFI in the output. Based purely on what I have observed, as

Re: UEFI support from command line

2013-02-19 Thread Steven Stern
On 02/18/2013 07:30 AM, Kevin Wilson wrote: Hi, Is there a way to know without entering BIOS, whether your machine supoports UEFI or not ? I would appreciate if someone with a machine with UEFI support will check whether when running dmidecode you see UEFI in the output. Regards, Kevin

Re: UEFI support from command line

2013-02-18 Thread Dale Dellutri
On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 7:30 AM, Kevin Wilson wkev...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Is there a way to know without entering BIOS, whether your machine supoports UEFI or not ? I would appreciate if someone with a machine with UEFI support will check whether when running dmidecode you see UEFI in the

Re: UEFI support from command line

2013-02-18 Thread Jatin K
On Monday 18 February 2013 07:00 PM, Kevin Wilson wrote: Hi, Is there a way to know without entering BIOS, whether your machine supoports UEFI or not ? I would appreciate if someone with a machine with UEFI support will check whether when running dmidecode you see UEFI in the output. Regards,