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I dislike uefi because I have to install and update the boot loader into the motherboard instead of the motherboard/cpu just running what's on disk. Not portab
by Am4TIfIsER0ppos 2y ago
I dislike uefi because I have to install and update the boot loader into the motherboard instead of the motherboard/cpu just running what's on disk. Not portable in the slightest. Some hardware failure preventing boot? You need another system and OS ready to go or download and burn a usb boot disk. Somehow that works but I can't just do that for my m.2 disk.
What does it get me? A fancier "bios" menu that supports a mouse. Big whoop.
- NekkoDroid 2y ago> I dislike uefi because I have to install and update the boot loader into the motherboard instead of the motherboard/cpu just running what's on disk. Not portable in the slightest. UEFI by default also looks in the ESP (EFI System Partition) under /EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.EFI for any PE binary (usually the bootloader). systemd-boot for example installs itself there when you ask it to and you don't have to register anything.
- toast0 2y ago> What does it get me? A fancier "bios" menu that supports a mouse. Big whoop. My compaq pentium 75 had bios setup that looked like windows 3. Mouse support in bios wasn't cool or necessary then, and it isn't now. :p
- homebrewer 2y agoSometimes the ability to boot an efi-capable image from any efi partition is useful. For example, I used it to install multiple operating systems (including Windows) without a flash drive — you simply create a sufficiently large efi partition on any disk in the system, unpack the iso on it, and pick the new option from the menu. Then wipe the partition when it's no longer needed. It even works if you have only one disk — the firmware is supposed to support many efi partitions on the same disk, and although I'm sure some of them don't, I haven't personally seen any.