Boot CURRENT without efi

[Allan Jude]

On 2017-06-05 13:31, Andy Neustadter wrote:
> Hi:
> 
> I have an older HP desktop that does not support USB boot or UEFI.  Is
> it possible to use this machine with 12-current using GPT?  Any help
> or pointers to info would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks in advance.
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If your BIOS does not actively interfere, then yes, you can boot from a
GPT partitioned disk in legacy mode, without UEFI.

If it doesn't work, the installer still supports MBR.

-- 
Allan Jude

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