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1. Re: UEFI HP Laptop Bootup Question (Sebastian)


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Message: 1
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2015 10:01:28 +0100
From: Sebastian <sebsebseb_mageia@gmx.com>
To: Bristol and Bath Linux User Group <bristol@mailman.lug.org.uk>,
"debian@invux.com" <debian@invux.com>, "sebsebseb_mageia@gmx.com"
<sebsebseb_mageia@gmx.com>
Subject: Re: [bristol] UEFI HP Laptop Bootup Question
Message-ID: <209AF2AB-4979-40BF-8A19-1D5E3446FE9A@gmx.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii

Hi

Slowly been getting that lap top sorted out (since lack of interest) since other things, however would be nice to bring it properly set up to this coming Saturdays LUG Meeting.

The Windows 8.1 install got upgraded rather soon to Windows 10 after being offered the upgrade, and for a version of Windows it generally does seem like a proper improvement especially with the multiple desktops feature, and a default browser that apparently has a possibly much more standards compliment rendering engine than the old IE.

I did the upgrade of Windows first and then sorted out my partitions properly and set up my big separate /home and swap space (which may be quite a bit bigger, then it needs to be, since I got 8GB RAM in there), and then I installed a proper install of Ubuntu 15.04. I am going to psych alley install the latest stable version of Fedora next, followed by Mageia 5. Then that's it my multi boot is done, other OS's will be done in Virtualbox. For fun I am going to even play around with an Android Emulator or two it seems, so can run Android apps on lap top.

Something I am wondering about though is how that efibootmgr is actually used? Since it seems to be some sort of terminal program.

Regards

Sebastian

> On 24 Jul 2015, at 17:49, Sebastian <sebsebseb_mageia@gmx.com> wrote:
>
>
>
>> On 24 Jul 2015, at 16:40, "Steve King" <debian@invux.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> I mean on a old BIOS computer this would have generally been quite easy
>>> to do, to have Grub coming up first, but yes it's a different ball game
>>> with UEFI.
>>
>> You need to install the package efibootmgr package and you can use this to
>> select the default boot ordering from Linux.
> Ok thanks :) I'll look into that, and I assume the other two distros I would like psyichal installs of have the same package or something similar, in the repos at least. I'll probably do a progress update on this list, next week or something like that.
>>
>> There is a windows command line utility that does the same kind of thing,
>> but windows.
>>
>> My EFI BIOS also allows you to change the default, but I wouldn't be
>> surprised if that was optional for the BIOS to support changing it.
>>
>> --
>> Steve
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