Re: [gentoo-user] Can I suppress the bleep when shutting down?

[Mick]

On Wednesday 21 Oct 2015 11:23:46 Alan Mackenzie wrote:

> Indeed, on The Register the other day, in a comments sections, somebody
> described how he had a dual boot GNU/Linux Windows setup, and after a
> Windows update, the GNU/Linux wouldn't boot at all.  He suspected that
> the Windows update had tampered with the UEFI CMOS settings somehow.

I wouldn't think that MSWindows would interfere in the UEFI settings and 
enable Secure Boot, but it may have messed up the boot loader settings - esp. 
if the poster had set up the MSWindows boot manager to chainload their Linux 
OS.


> Do modern motherboards still allow you the option of running under the
> traditional BIOS?  I've not seen this mentioned in any of the motherboard
> descriptions recently.

From what I have seen there is a conventional BIOS compatibility setting, to 
allow booting vanilla MBR disks.

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Regards,
Mick