Can ROCK install on Non Legacy PCs now?

I have a PC that has no legacy options in BIOS only UEFI, previously this was game over for ROCK.

Has that been addressed?

Thanks

I have never (had to) experience a PC like this. But if so, you can install Windows and then the Roon server in the Windows version.

It has never been a limitation of Roon server. You can use Windows or Linux on a UEFI machine and run Roon no problem.

ROCK on the other hand does require a legacy bios configuration.

Yes sorryy I meant ROCK.

Thats a shame. I would have thought newer NUC would be binning legacy anyhow.

No the supported nuc are all legacy compliant

Roon Server is fine on top of any OS that is supported and will boot UEFI (Linux, Windows, etc.).

ROCK is still a no go.

If you’re adventurous you could run ROCK in a VM or even one of the community container versions using a UEFI booted hypervisor / host. This is not supported by Roon of course. See the Tinkering section for more details.

I’m not sure why you can’t just load a Linux distro and RoonServer. Might be just a little more complicated than just using ROCK, but, then again, you have more control over the environment and can setup other things. Like monitoring system temps and running RAM and Drive diagnostics, if you need to.

Its not a big deal, I use Daphile as end points which works wonderfully, its just a shame my modern motherboard cannot run rock because its UIFI only.

not yet… hoping to have resolved next month

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Cool :slight_smile: If you need a beta send it over!

Any further news on this.

@danny Very interested in this as well. Thank you in advance!