When incorporates Ubuntu the new bios EFI software ? (Graphical Bios)

[Andrew Kane]

On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 12:55 PM, Hein van Helsdingen
<hvanhelsdingen at online.nl> wrote:
> Dear All.
>
> I just bought a new computer.  It was impossible  to install Ubuntu
> 9.10. on it, the message I got was MP-Bios bug: 8254 timer not connected
> to IO-APIC. The computer has a MSI motherboard with a new kind of Bios,
> a graphical Bios, EFI.  The computer also can not work with an attached
> USB stick with an Ubuntu 9.10 system on it.
> Presuming it is the new Bios that makes the trouble, I made the
> question: When is Ubuntu incorporating new software to work with the new
> Bios system EFI ?  Already with the 10.04?   (In that case I keep my new
> computer, and....wait.)
>
> Thanks on forehand for the information.
> Hein van Helsdingen, Holland.
>

I'm not able to directly answer your question, but if you are
determined to use Ubuntu with this computer you might consider the use
of LinuxBIOS (aka coreboot)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coreboot