On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 02:30:11AM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote: > | From: William Park via talk <[email protected]> > > | 4. If you plan to move the harddisk to another machine (like I do), then > | use MBR. Problem with EFI is that it writes the boot entry in BIOS. > | Well, on a new motherboard, boot entry is not there, so you can't boot. > | You have to dig into EFI shell, and manually select your .efi. > > My working hypothesis is that EFI is the future so I use it when I > can. I am frequently disappointed to discover how clunky an > implementation's user interface is. > > If I remember correctly what I was told, the EFI shell cannot be > delivered with machines that have Secure Boot. Or maybe it is with > machines that have the Windows Logo, at least recently. So I don't > think that current machines come with an EFI shell. I don't know if > an EFI shell is generic -- would work on all machines with the same > architecture.
I don't remember see Secure Boot in the BIOS for the current machine. So, maybe, EFI can be run with or without Secure Boot. -- William --- Talk Mailing List [email protected] https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
