On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 12:38:25AM -0600, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev wrote: > > > > Summary: I hate UEFI even more! ;-) > > I can understand that, but I thnk the issue is that you still want to keep a > Windows instance. W requires secure boot. Linux/Grub can handle that, but > if you don't need W, then secure boot=off and removing the efi partition > completely via fdisk/gdisk will probably allow a standard version of LFS > built grub to be installed and control the boot process. > > -- Bruce
I beg leave to doubt that this machine will ever be able to boot without secure boot. Certainly, the manufacturer (and others) seem to go out of their way to mess with the UEFI so that it is hard to boot linux, and I suspect the legacy bios boot path is poorly exercised because the machines all whip with W. Soem of the ACPI and related settings can best be described as "poor, but adequate for W". And although I've updated the "bios" by two versions, the updater comes in an (unsigned!) zip file which W said was "downloaded from the internet", and it uses a windows executable to do the update. Anyway, I'm not about to try removing W - the machine was bought for a purpose, I've already destroyed enough hardware in the past without breaking some more ;-) ĸen -- The beauty of reading a page of de Selby is that it leads one inescapably to the conclusion that one is not, of all nincompoops, the greates. -- du Garbandier -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
