On 2018-05-16, songbird > wrote:

> the installer is running in UEFI mode and not bios mode

I finally figured out how to get to my BIOS. I thought I wanted
'legacy' mode. ????

> otherwise you may be installing without getting the
> UEFI stuff and then it is a PITA to get it changed to
> UEFI again.
>
> i just went through this on this machine and since i
> didn't know anything about UEFI i didn't know about the
> different modes and ended up having to figure it all out
> and fix it.

Sounds like I may be headed down that same road. I'll take all the
help I can, as I am getting old and am set in my lazy ways. You mean
I gotta learn this crap all over, again!?

> refind is a very helpful utility and the configuration
> file in /boot/efi/EFI/BOOT/refind.conf can be easily edited
> (see the samples at the end if you want something specific).
> your final destination may be different than mine so the
> above path is only a guess for your system.

Thnx, songbird.

nb