From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Can I suppress the bleep when shutting down?
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2015 14:29:24 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151021142924.2620d95e@digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151021102346.GB2608@acm.fritz.box>
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On Wed, 21 Oct 2015 10:23:46 +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> "Modern" UEFI firmware not reporting such errors, if such be the case,
> would be one of the reasons for me to depise UEFI as I do.
I can't see that being true.
> Why do I
> need UEFI? A traditional BIOS can boot my machine just fine, and the
> sole purpose of UEFI seems to be to prevent OS's which aren't Microsoft
> Windows from booting, and to brick certain Samsung laptops.
You seem to be confusing UEFI with Secure Boot.
For me, the greatest benefit of UEFI is that I no longer have to deal
with GRUB.
--
Neil Bothwick
"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity;
and I'm not sure about the the universe."
(Albert Einstein)
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Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-10-20 16:10 [gentoo-user] Can I suppress the bleep when shutting down? Alan Mackenzie
2015-10-20 16:20 ` Alec Ten Harmsel
2015-10-20 16:27 ` wabenbau
2015-10-20 16:44 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-10-20 17:22 ` Matthias Gerstner
2015-10-20 17:57 ` Marc Joliet
2015-10-20 18:48 ` Alan McKinnon
2015-10-20 20:24 ` Marc Joliet
2015-10-20 18:01 ` [gentoo-user] " »Q«
2015-10-20 18:20 ` [gentoo-user] " Alan Mackenzie
2015-10-20 17:22 ` Alan McKinnon
2015-10-20 18:27 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-10-20 19:03 ` [gentoo-user] " James
2015-10-21 11:58 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-10-21 9:03 ` [gentoo-user] " Peter Humphrey
2015-10-21 9:55 ` Mick
2015-10-21 10:23 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-10-21 13:29 ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2015-10-21 13:41 ` Mick
2015-10-21 13:46 ` Mick
2015-10-21 17:10 ` Lee
2015-10-22 14:51 ` João Miguel
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