Re: N00b to Uefi (will this board support Debian? )

OK, here's my dumb answer:

Buy the board online through flipkart or any other e-commerce site
with a "favourable" return policy. Test the board out, and if it
doesn't run Debian for you, return it saying "it didn't work for me".
No lies :-)

This involves tinkering with a board, which is "work". But this kind
of work is fun ;-)

On 13 August 2013 22:08, Mahesh Pai <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> My PC finally died. The hardware who has his shop accross the road is
> offering this mother board :-
>
> http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/P8H61M_LX3_PLUS/
>
> More precisely, ver 3 of the board.
>
> Any feedback on that board?
>
> I run debian _experimental_ updated about 3/ 4 weeks back and have simply
> swapped hard disks in situations like this. (No reinstall)
>
> What has me worried is the UEFI gobbledygook in the features of the board.
>
> I have no need for other OSes, and have only one kernel installed.
>
> Since the nouveau drivers are already installed, and the initramfs image
> includes drivers for "most" devices, I hope that  the existing Os on the
> disk will work straightaway.
>
> Am I correct here?
>
> What about UEFI?
>
> Anything else I need to know here?
>
> Apologies about formatting ; I am posting from the mobile.
>
> TIA,
>
> Mahesh
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