"Secure Boot" motherboards (to avoid)?

[Antoine Kallab]

> On May 11, 2014, at 19:00, John <freebsd-lists at potato.growveg.org> wrote:
> 
> The UEFI thing is why I had to go with PC-BSD rather than regular
> FreeBSD. My motherboard is an Asus Z87-PRO and there seems to be no way
> to disable UEFI in the bios, or conversely to enable 'legacy mode'. 

You might want to look in to CoreBoot. It's a custom BIOS project. They have a list of supported boards/chipsets on their wiki, and I do remember seeing a lot of ASUS boards on the list. 

I can't vouch for it in any way, just thought it might be something worth trying if you can't get your bios to behave. 

Good luck.