[Bradford] UEFI and other Microsoft nasties

[John Robert Hudson]

There are well documented problems with the Samsung; the issue is that,
during the process of writing to the EFI partition, there can be an
overflow which can 'brick' the Samsung; the work-around is to delete
everything that is not essential from the EFI partition - not many
people know how to do that.

openSUSE has just released SUSE's double shim UEFI boot which works -
but with the proviso that it is written for the way current EFI
partitions are written. If an OEM does something different, it may stop
the SUSE double shim working.

John
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On Wed, 2013-03-27 at 12:17 +0000, Brian A wrote:
> I am wanting to buy a new laptop. So, obviously I want to ditch
> whatever Microsoft toy OS is on there and put on Linux. This, in
> keeping with getting a matt 17" screen, amongst other things, is a
> nightmare to research. I read a review on Amazon of a Samsung laptop,
> which seemed to be a reasonable spec for the price, but a 'no no' as
> far as installing any other OS.
> I'd be interested to know what others think of the points of this
> review in that regard. 
> 
> 
> Look for the heading 'APPALLING - AVOID!!!'.
> 
> 
> http://www.amazon.co.uk/product-reviews/B009SJCX68
> 
> 
> 
> This was written before the release of the UEFI facilitated Ubuntu
> 12.04.2, but I don't know if that would make any difference anyway.
> 
> 
> Brian
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