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

[Karl F. Larsen]

Hein van Helsdingen 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.
> 
> 
	Hello Hein, please tell us the make and model of your new 
computer. Then we can learn more about your problem with Google.

73 Karl

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