On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 12:08 PM, Ross Drummond <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, 19 Mar 2012, yuri wrote: > >> If what Ross says is correct, then replacing the drive would require >> returning the computer to the manufacturer. If the warrantee is >> expired, that could prove very expensive. Yet another reason to hate >> UEFI - if this is correct. >> >> Yuri > > I haven't actually wrangled with UEFI and Linux so what I am telling you is > all book learning. > > From the Wikipedia page; > > "UEFI does not rely on a working boot sector only, but needs a special > partition table referring to a special partition containing a specially > located file with a standardized name depending on the actual architecture to > boot (\EFI\BOOT\boot[architecture name].efi)."
Lesson 1, back up the computer the moment you unpack it Lesson 2, at least back up the efi file the moment you unpack the computer, and make a note of the details of the special partition Lesson 3, remember where the hell you put the backup. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
