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Is UEFI boot support being required unusual? Caught my eye, I don't often see it listed explicitly as a requirement.
by mwill 13y ago
Is UEFI boot support being required unusual? Caught my eye, I don't often see it listed explicitly as a requirement.
- cbhl 13y agoAs a requirement, no, but basically every new machine (Macbooks \w Mac OS X, Chromebooks \w Chrome OS, Windows RT tablets, Windows 8 machines) ships booting off of UEFI.
- edwintorok 13y agoYou can create a BIOS bootable CDROM using grub-mkrescue[1]: (mkdir steamos && cd steamos && unzip ~/Downloads/SteamOSInstaller.zip) && grub-mkrescue -o steamos.iso steamos It boots with QEMU: truncate --size 20G /var/tmp/disk.img && qemu-system-x86_64 -cdrom steamos.iso -hda /var/tmp/disk.img,if=virtio -vga std -m 2048 -enable-kvm [1] https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/Making-a-GRUB-bootable-CD_002dROM.html https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/Making-a-...