EFI support on GE60 0NC (bought with freedos)

Hello!
I bought MSI GE60 0NC (with FreeDOS preinstalled, too save some money for unneded Windows) few days ago.
Unfortunately, I discovered that it's BIOS lacks EFI/UEFI support. At least, it is no any UEFI/SecureBoot related items neither in Setup Dialog (activated by DEL) nor in Boot Manager (by F11).
Moreover, When I try to boot from USB flash stick (with unpacked EFI directory, and even with Shell.efi in the root) laptop says Quote
This is not a bootable disk. Insert a bootable floppy and press any key
When I trying to do the same from SD card in cardreader — laptop just silently proceeds to boot system from HDD.
But, at the same time, dmidecode under Linux says:
Quote
note ~ % dmidecode | grep EFI
UEFI is supported
in BIOS section.
So, is it any way to get EFI working here? :'(

Quote from: darkhawk on 29-August-13, 10:23:03
UEFI doesn't really provide anything for these laptops.....
Fast boot? Needless for bootloaders? At least, it is my point, why I want to get UEFI here.

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