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Complete documentation for UEFI boot

Our initial UEFI support is part of Tails 1.1. The bare minimum of documentation is updated (#7220 (closed)), but there will likely be more to check, update and improve:

  • adapt our existing documentation to take into account that UEFI boot is now possible:
    • known issues page
    • booting Tails page (?)
    • about and/or features
    • hardware requirements
    • Mac-specific doc: we need to keep the existing manual installation documentation (as part of solving the bootstrap problem for those who have neither a PC, nor a DVD writer, nor a trusted Tails device); but, we must also document that a device installed by Tails Installer boots fine on most Macs provided rEFInd is installed
  • document known issues of our UEFI boot support, and corresponding workarounds when applicable; these are gathered on the blueprint, and more specifically:
    • non-goals section
    • the test results section mentions a few hardware-specific problems and tricks

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