Whereas with the CSM this isn't possible which is why battery life basically sucks when booting Windows or any non-Mac OS system while using CSM mode booting. But the main benefit is ACPI support meaning much better power management is possible making the laptop usable with approximately Mac OS level battery life. I found it to be over my skill level at this point. I have found EFI booting to be a total dead end, although there is an Ubuntu hosted recipe for getting it to work on 8,1 8,2 and 8,3 models. 'BIOS emulation') booting, not EFI booting or installation of Fedora. Possible additional problem if you received an error during installation:īoth apply to CSM (EFI compatibility support module, a.k.a.
