18 Dec
2015
18 Dec
'15
3:39 p.m.
On Fri, December 18, 2015 6:39 am, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
Haven't verified if UEFI could be disabled.
UEFI is the boot firmware for the processor. The usual case is that if
the motherboard has UEFI boot firmware, that is the only firmware
available, no company will perform twice the work to support UEFI and also
legacy BIOS for the same motherboard.
UEFI does have a legacy mode in which it can behave like legacy BIOS for
booting operating systems which have no UEFI bootloader capability, like
DOS or very old versions of Windows.
Perhaps what you really want to know is whether secure boot can be
disabled (cryptographic verification of bootloader files). Disabling
secure boot is very likely a configuration option. Perhaps the vendor has
a manual available online to confirm, but the phrase you should look for
is disable secure boot, not disable UEFI.
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Chris Caudle