Re:Fedora considers deprecating legacy BIOS
by eklitzke on Thursday April 21, 2022 @10:00AM
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From the article:
> Intel stopped shipping the last vestiges of BIOS support in 2020 (as have other vendors, and Apple and Microsoft), so this is clearly the way things are heading - and therefore aligns with Fedora's "First" objective.
You may not have seen many computers yet without legacy BIOS compatibility but this is going to be the norm for new computers very soon.
Re:Fedora considers deprecating legacy BIOS
by adrian_b on Thursday April 21, 2022 @10:35AM
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The last new PC that I have seen, and which still had legacy BIOS booting support, was a Dell laptop purchased in Q2 2021.
However, it was a model launched in the second half of 2020. It is indeed possible that the models introduced since 2021 might omit the legacy BIOS booting support.
Re:Fedora considers deprecating legacy BIOS
by doubled112 on Thursday April 21, 2022 @07:45AM
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I have a couple of AMD ASUS Vivobooks that don’t have CSM/BIOS boot available
Never noticed until I wanted to boot memtest.
It’s possible that I missed it, but Google results didn’t look promising either.
Nevertheless, the option to enable the legacy BIOS booting can be quite hard to find in the BIOS menus, which may deceive many into believing that a system does not support legacy BIOS booting, even when it actually does support it.
On work computers belonging to a company, the BIOS configuration may be locked, so it might not be possible for the users to enable legacy BIOS booting.