UEFI Booting Support

Discussions center on UEFI firmware's role in booting, its compatibility with various systems and distributions, comparisons to legacy BIOS or alternatives like U-Boot, and calls for better UEFI support.

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chocolatebunny Jun 1, 2017 View on HN

doesn't UEFI resolve all that?

MikusR Oct 28, 2020 View on HN

With uefi that seems to not be a problem.

wtallis Nov 2, 2014 View on HN

What's UEFI got to do with it?

Torgo Apr 1, 2014 View on HN

Apparently the UEFI implementation it requires to boot is not open source :-(

brcmthrowaway Jun 29, 2025 View on HN

What an arcane piece of tech. Why not use EFI?

khoobid_shoma Jul 5, 2022 View on HN

Yeah, that's unfortunate it does not support UEFI out of the box.

ale42 Mar 25, 2022 View on HN

Would be nice to see this updated for UEFI!

geerlingguy Sep 28, 2023 View on HN

No official UEFI support at this time.

shortrounddev2 Dec 11, 2023 View on HN

What would be more bare metal than UEFI?

kaszanka Nov 2, 2020 View on HN

Seems like this only affects UEFI bootloaders.