i'm still wading through alex pilon's stunningly detailed explanation -- i know next to nothing about UEFI but i guess i'm about to learn. :-) On Tue, 31 Dec 2013, Mike Rosberg wrote: > Hi Robert, > I have no experience booting Linux under UEFI but am interested in > your experience as I await the arrival of a new Zenbook which I plan > to dual-boot Win8 and likely Fedora 20. yes, i'll want to know how to do things like that as well, so we should start collecting notes. > One thought that occurs to me after reading through your install > process is that the installed USB drive will be unbootable following > the OS install as it will be lacking a EFI System Partition. i thought that might be the case as well, but with only the target USB drive inserted in the laptop, when i booted and stopped in the BIOS, i had three possibilities under "Boot Override": * Windows Boot Manager ... * CentOS (Sony Storage Media 1.00) * UEFI: Sony Storage Media 1.00 so the sony USB drive apparently shows up as both a UEFI and non-UEFI device, and i simply selected the non-UEFI choice, and it booted just fine. i definitely have some reading to do. the wikipedia page looks relatively readable: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Extensible_Firmware_Interface and if anyone has pointers to good intros to the topic, let's hear them. rday p.s. what's the story on the january OCLUG meeting? perhaps someone can give a talk on UEFI? :-) -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ========================================================================