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<p dir="auto">Here is how you can detect if you’ve booted your computer using a UEFI BIOS or a Legacy BIOS. First, install the <code>dmidecode</code> utility from your operating system repository. On Debian, you can:</p>
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<pre tabindex="0" style="color:#f8f8f2;background-color:#282a36;"><code><span style="display:flex;"><span style="white-space:pre;user-select:none;margin-right:0.4em;padding:0 0.4em 0 0.4em;color:#7f7f7f">1</span><span>apt-get install dmidecode
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</span></span></code></pre><p dir="auto"><code>dmidecode</code> reports information related to the BIOS under a <em>type 0</em> entry. A quick way to detect the BIOS mode is:</p>
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<pre tabindex="0" style="color:#f8f8f2;background-color:#282a36;"><code><span style="display:flex;"><span style="white-space:pre;user-select:none;margin-right:0.4em;padding:0 0.4em 0 0.4em;color:#7f7f7f">1</span><span>sudo dmidecode -t <span style="color:#bd93f9">0</span> | grep UEFI > /dev/null <span style="color:#ff79c6">&&</span> <span style="color:#8be9fd;font-style:italic">echo</span> UEFI <span style="color:#ff79c6">||</span> <span style="color:#8be9fd;font-style:italic">echo</span> BIOS
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</span></span></code></pre><p dir="auto">On a (Legacy) BIOS system you would see:</p>
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<pre tabindex="0" style="color:#f8f8f2;background-color:#282a36;"><code><span style="display:flex;"><span style="white-space:pre;user-select:none;margin-right:0.4em;padding:0 0.4em 0 0.4em;color:#7f7f7f"> 1</span><span>$ sudo dmidecode -t <span style="color:#bd93f9">0</span>
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</span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span style="white-space:pre;user-select:none;margin-right:0.4em;padding:0 0.4em 0 0.4em;color:#7f7f7f"> 2</span><span><span style="color:#6272a4"># dmidecode 3.4</span>
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</span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span style="white-space:pre;user-select:none;margin-right:0.4em;padding:0 0.4em 0 0.4em;color:#7f7f7f"> 3</span><span>Getting SMBIOS data from sysfs.
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</span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span style="white-space:pre;user-select:none;margin-right:0.4em;padding:0 0.4em 0 0.4em;color:#7f7f7f"> 4</span><span>SMBIOS 3.0.0 present.
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</span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span style="white-space:pre;user-select:none;margin-right:0.4em;padding:0 0.4em 0 0.4em;color:#7f7f7f"> 5</span><span>
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</span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span style="white-space:pre;user-select:none;margin-right:0.4em;padding:0 0.4em 0 0.4em;color:#7f7f7f"> 6</span><span>Handle 0x0000, DMI <span style="color:#8be9fd;font-style:italic">type</span> 0, <span style="color:#bd93f9">26</span> bytes
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</span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span style="white-space:pre;user-select:none;margin-right:0.4em;padding:0 0.4em 0 0.4em;color:#7f7f7f"> 7</span><span>BIOS Information
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</span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span style="white-space:pre;user-select:none;margin-right:0.4em;padding:0 0.4em 0 0.4em;color:#7f7f7f"> 8</span><span> Vendor: 3mdeb
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</span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span style="white-space:pre;user-select:none;margin-right:0.4em;padding:0 0.4em 0 0.4em;color:#7f7f7f"> 9</span><span> Version: Dasharo <span style="color:#ff79c6">(</span>coreboot+SeaBIOS<span style="color:#ff79c6">)</span>
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</span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span style="white-space:pre;user-select:none;margin-right:0.4em;padding:0 0.4em 0 0.4em;color:#7f7f7f">10</span><span> Release Date: 08/23/2022
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</span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span style="white-space:pre;user-select:none;margin-right:0.4em;padding:0 0.4em 0 0.4em;color:#7f7f7f">11</span><span> ROM Size: <span style="color:#bd93f9">12</span> MB
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</span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span style="white-space:pre;user-select:none;margin-right:0.4em;padding:0 0.4em 0 0.4em;color:#7f7f7f">12</span><span> Characteristics:
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</span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span style="white-space:pre;user-select:none;margin-right:0.4em;padding:0 0.4em 0 0.4em;color:#7f7f7f">13</span><span> PCI is supported
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</span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span style="white-space:pre;user-select:none;margin-right:0.4em;padding:0 0.4em 0 0.4em;color:#7f7f7f">14</span><span> PC Card <span style="color:#ff79c6">(</span>PCMCIA<span style="color:#ff79c6">)</span> is supported
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</span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span style="white-space:pre;user-select:none;margin-right:0.4em;padding:0 0.4em 0 0.4em;color:#7f7f7f">15</span><span> BIOS is upgradeable
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</span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span style="white-space:pre;user-select:none;margin-right:0.4em;padding:0 0.4em 0 0.4em;color:#7f7f7f">16</span><span> Selectable boot is supported
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</span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span style="white-space:pre;user-select:none;margin-right:0.4em;padding:0 0.4em 0 0.4em;color:#7f7f7f">17</span><span> ACPI is supported
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</span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span style="white-space:pre;user-select:none;margin-right:0.4em;padding:0 0.4em 0 0.4em;color:#7f7f7f">18</span><span> Targeted content distribution is supported
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</span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span style="white-space:pre;user-select:none;margin-right:0.4em;padding:0 0.4em 0 0.4em;color:#7f7f7f">19</span><span> BIOS Revision: 0.0
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</span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span style="white-space:pre;user-select:none;margin-right:0.4em;padding:0 0.4em 0 0.4em;color:#7f7f7f">20</span><span> Firmware Revision: 0.0
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</span></span></code></pre><p dir="auto">On a UEFI system you would see:</p>
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<pre tabindex="0" style="color:#f8f8f2;background-color:#282a36;"><code><span style="display:flex;"><span style="white-space:pre;user-select:none;margin-right:0.4em;padding:0 0.4em 0 0.4em;color:#7f7f7f"> 1</span><span>$ sudo dmidecode -t <span style="color:#bd93f9">0</span>
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</span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span style="white-space:pre;user-select:none;margin-right:0.4em;padding:0 0.4em 0 0.4em;color:#7f7f7f"> 2</span><span><span style="color:#6272a4"># dmidecode 3.4</span>
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</span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span style="white-space:pre;user-select:none;margin-right:0.4em;padding:0 0.4em 0 0.4em;color:#7f7f7f"> 3</span><span>Getting SMBIOS data from sysfs.
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</span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span style="white-space:pre;user-select:none;margin-right:0.4em;padding:0 0.4em 0 0.4em;color:#7f7f7f"> 4</span><span>SMBIOS 3.1.1 present.
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</span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span style="white-space:pre;user-select:none;margin-right:0.4em;padding:0 0.4em 0 0.4em;color:#7f7f7f"> 5</span><span>
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</span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span style="white-space:pre;user-select:none;margin-right:0.4em;padding:0 0.4em 0 0.4em;color:#7f7f7f"> 6</span><span>Handle 0x0000, DMI <span style="color:#8be9fd;font-style:italic">type</span> 0, <span style="color:#bd93f9">26</span> bytes
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</span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span style="white-space:pre;user-select:none;margin-right:0.4em;padding:0 0.4em 0 0.4em;color:#7f7f7f"> 7</span><span>BIOS Information
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</span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span style="white-space:pre;user-select:none;margin-right:0.4em;padding:0 0.4em 0 0.4em;color:#7f7f7f"> 8</span><span> Vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
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</span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span style="white-space:pre;user-select:none;margin-right:0.4em;padding:0 0.4em 0 0.4em;color:#7f7f7f"> 9</span><span> Version: <span style="color:#bd93f9">2202</span>
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</span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span style="white-space:pre;user-select:none;margin-right:0.4em;padding:0 0.4em 0 0.4em;color:#7f7f7f">10</span><span> Release Date: 07/14/2020
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</span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span style="white-space:pre;user-select:none;margin-right:0.4em;padding:0 0.4em 0 0.4em;color:#7f7f7f">11</span><span> Address: 0xF0000
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</span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span style="white-space:pre;user-select:none;margin-right:0.4em;padding:0 0.4em 0 0.4em;color:#7f7f7f">12</span><span> Runtime Size: <span style="color:#bd93f9">64</span> kB
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</span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span style="white-space:pre;user-select:none;margin-right:0.4em;padding:0 0.4em 0 0.4em;color:#7f7f7f">13</span><span> ROM Size: <span style="color:#bd93f9">16</span> MB
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</span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span style="white-space:pre;user-select:none;margin-right:0.4em;padding:0 0.4em 0 0.4em;color:#7f7f7f">14</span><span> Characteristics:
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</span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span style="white-space:pre;user-select:none;margin-right:0.4em;padding:0 0.4em 0 0.4em;color:#7f7f7f">15</span><span> PCI is supported
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</span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span style="white-space:pre;user-select:none;margin-right:0.4em;padding:0 0.4em 0 0.4em;color:#7f7f7f">16</span><span> APM is supported
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</span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span style="white-space:pre;user-select:none;margin-right:0.4em;padding:0 0.4em 0 0.4em;color:#7f7f7f">17</span><span> BIOS is upgradeable
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</span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span style="white-space:pre;user-select:none;margin-right:0.4em;padding:0 0.4em 0 0.4em;color:#7f7f7f">18</span><span> BIOS shadowing is allowed
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</span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span style="white-space:pre;user-select:none;margin-right:0.4em;padding:0 0.4em 0 0.4em;color:#7f7f7f">19</span><span> Boot from CD is supported
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</span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span style="white-space:pre;user-select:none;margin-right:0.4em;padding:0 0.4em 0 0.4em;color:#7f7f7f">20</span><span> Selectable boot is supported
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</span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span style="white-space:pre;user-select:none;margin-right:0.4em;padding:0 0.4em 0 0.4em;color:#7f7f7f">21</span><span> BIOS ROM is socketed
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</span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span style="white-space:pre;user-select:none;margin-right:0.4em;padding:0 0.4em 0 0.4em;color:#7f7f7f">22</span><span> EDD is supported
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</span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span style="white-space:pre;user-select:none;margin-right:0.4em;padding:0 0.4em 0 0.4em;color:#7f7f7f">23</span><span> Print screen service is supported <span style="color:#ff79c6">(</span>int 5h<span style="color:#ff79c6">)</span>
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</span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span style="white-space:pre;user-select:none;margin-right:0.4em;padding:0 0.4em 0 0.4em;color:#7f7f7f">24</span><span> <span style="color:#bd93f9">8042</span> keyboard services are supported <span style="color:#ff79c6">(</span>int 9h<span style="color:#ff79c6">)</span>
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</span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span style="white-space:pre;user-select:none;margin-right:0.4em;padding:0 0.4em 0 0.4em;color:#7f7f7f">25</span><span> Serial services are supported <span style="color:#ff79c6">(</span>int 14h<span style="color:#ff79c6">)</span>
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</span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span style="white-space:pre;user-select:none;margin-right:0.4em;padding:0 0.4em 0 0.4em;color:#7f7f7f">26</span><span> Printer services are supported <span style="color:#ff79c6">(</span>int 17h<span style="color:#ff79c6">)</span>
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</span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span style="white-space:pre;user-select:none;margin-right:0.4em;padding:0 0.4em 0 0.4em;color:#7f7f7f">27</span><span> ACPI is supported
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</span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span style="white-space:pre;user-select:none;margin-right:0.4em;padding:0 0.4em 0 0.4em;color:#7f7f7f">30</span><span> Targeted content distribution is supported
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</span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span style="white-space:pre;user-select:none;margin-right:0.4em;padding:0 0.4em 0 0.4em;color:#7f7f7f">31</span><span> UEFI is supported
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