https://www.micah.soy/tags/bios/ Recent content in Bios on Micah Henning Hugo en-us Thu, 07 May 2020 20:33:00 +0000 https://www.micah.soy/posts/converting-windows-10-legacy-bios-to-uefi-secure-boot/ Thu, 07 May 2020 20:33:00 +0000 https://www.micah.soy/posts/converting-windows-10-legacy-bios-to-uefi-secure-boot/ UEFI provides a number of features including Secure Boot that minimizes risk of rootkits and creates a chain of trust from the firmware all the way to the loading of third-party kernel modules. UEFI and Secure Boot are enabled by default in new Windows 10 installations. In my case, however, I upgraded from Windows 7 so my instance of Windows 10 uses a Master Boot Record (MBR) partition scheme and Legacy BIOS firmware.