Thanks Rich, I learned about EFI and GPT and UEFI booting in this experience.
<humor> Steps to reproduce: 1. crash a system 2. read and learn how to fix it :-) </humor> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EFI_system_partition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Extensible_Firmware_Interface#UEFIBOOT Greg Rundlett https://eQuality-Tech.com https://freephile.org On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 8:24 PM, Richard Pieri <richard.pi...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 1/25/2018 4:59 PM, Greg Rundlett (freephile) wrote: > > It didn't actually overwrite the Windows EFI boot partition (FAT32) - I > > think because it's protected / smart enough not to let me shoot myself in > > the foot. > > A nit-pick: there is no such thing as a "Windows EFI boot partition". > Windows uses NTFS for its boot manager partition. The EFI System > partition is part of the EFI or UEFI firmware, independent of any and > every OS on the system. It's usually FAT32 because FAT32 is a minimum > requirement of the UEFI specifications. > > Anyway, don't touch the EFI System unless you know exactly what you are > doing. Bad things can happen if it isn't exactly to EFI specs. > > -- > Rich P. > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@blu.org > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
