[lug] GRUB2 Compatibility: Mostly Fedora/Ubuntu, Some BIOS/UEFI

[Zan Lynx]

On 07/19/2017 02:36 PM, stimits at comcast.net wrote:
> I don't think it is entirely that BIOS modes are not supported in
> Ubuntu...I think it is confused by a UEFI-capable motherboard being in
> BIOS mode. Fedora works fine this way, Ubuntu is incapable of setting up
> USB on the same system though. Though command line tools for Fedora seem
> to have some issues the installer does not. I suspect that there hasn't
> been much reason to test newer distributions with BIOS compatibility mode.

I think your easiest fix is to give up BIOS and rebuild everything as UEFI.

Way back in the day I used to run Ubuntu 12.04 LTS on a Dell XPS 13 in
UEFI mode so I know it works.

I believe that you're right that BIOS compatibility mode isn't tested.
Why would it be, when UEFI is better by any measure.

These days it's like trying to run DOS on a modern system.

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