Re: [LUG] Getting to UEFI

[Neil via list <list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 01/04/17 16:50, mr meowski wrote:
> On 01/04/17 16:33, Neil via list wrote:
> > On 01/04/17 16:21, mr meowski wrote:
> > > On 01/04/17 16:08, Neil via list wrote:
> > >
> > > > I think secure boot is off, but I am not sure. As I said, the machine
> > > > arrived with Xubuntu already set up, so I have just been using it. I
> > > > have not tried to get at the BIOS before today.
>
> Surprisingly that wasn't as helpful as it usually is... Can you also run:
>
> ls /sys/firmware/efi
>
> Let me know what it says. If you get any results at all, you're in UEFI
> mode (which already looks 99% probable). Secureboot is *probably* off.
>
> Should have given you a better dmidecode string as well, apologies:
>
> sudo dmidecode --string baseboard-product-name
>
> That'll tell me the actual mobo type, rather than just the firmware strings.
>
> Cheers
not very helpful ..  ls: cannot access '/sys/firmware/efi': No such file 
or directory

And the next one, very terse

Z170 Extreme4

Thanks,

Neil





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