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

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?

Not much experience with UEFI, just a couple of installs. AFAIR, you
need to create a separate partition on the disk to hold the EFI files.
This generally is the first partition, and then comes your /boot and
everything else. If you do use your current hard disk, you might need
to add this guy.


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