[PROBLEM SOLVED, QUESTION CONCLUSIVELY ANSWERED.] Should I chose to boot from the BIOS or UEFI?

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[PROBLEM SOLVED, QUESTION CONCLUSIVELY ANSWERED.] Should I chose to boot from the BIOS or UEFI?

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Shortly I am going to be building a new toy for myself. Reading the motherboard manual, it sounds like I can install Mint to boot from either the BIOS or UEFI.

Up to now my machines have all booted from the BIOS so UEFI is a new creature for me.

I am leaning to booting from UEFI simply because it is newer technology so theoretically better.

Are there any benefits, drawbacks, or other issues selecting booting from UEFI?

Thanks for any help/suggestions.
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Re: Should I chose to boot from the BIOS or UEFI?

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Select UEFI. Only select BIOS if UEFI causes problems.
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Re: Should I chose to boot from the BIOS or UEFI?

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Disable secure boot, though, if enabled by default. Not very useful and can make some tasks more difficult, e.g., installing drivers.
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Re: Should I chose to boot from the BIOS or UEFI?

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Another vote for UEFI. UEFI-boot is much nicer than legacy boot, what with a well-defined place for boot-loaders such as Grub on the so-called ESP, a small FAT-formatted partition. In contrast legacy boot needs Grub split over MBR and "stolen space" between MBR and the first partition. It also (by design; Grub is in fact a bit too flexible there...) implies GPT-style partitioning rather than old MBR-style which is again much nicer, certainly if you want more than 4 partitions -- and needed if you want to partition more than 2T.
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Re: Should I chose to boot from the BIOS or UEFI?

Post by Pierre »

is this an dual_boot scenario ?
& what was the original operating system - if any ?

the modern method, is to run in an UEFI mode & an GPT partition system.
8)

you can still have an BIOS .. Legacy & ms-dos partition system
- with an 64 bit operating system . . this actually will work, okay.
:o

but, that hybrid method, is Not the correct method, these days.
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Re: Should I chose to boot from the BIOS or UEFI?

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Well the votes are all in favour of UEFI so that is how I will proceed. Thanks to all! :)

My build is on hold for a bit -- the store has sold out of the two AMD motherboards I was considering. So I am back to looking at features, reading reviews and specs. And then running like the wind to the store to get what I settle on.

TO PIERRE: this will be a single boot system -- only Mint. I gave up being annoyed by Windows years ago.


Thank you to everyone for your suggestions and advice. It is much appreciated.
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