Re: UEFI is a POS

2012-11-24 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 23Nov2012 19:09, Gary Kline wrote: | I know what I did in the newest bios: essentially nothing. [...] | [...] and choosing the "Load Defaults" button! in other | words, I chickened out:) I tend to avoid such buttons unless I want to trash the box's setup. Load defaults will

Re: UEFI is a POS

2012-11-23 Thread Gary Kline
On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 05:49:57PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: > On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 12:32:25PM -0800, Edik Landaveri wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 08:27:55AM -0600, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > > Gary, > > > > Installing a desktop environment & unistalling other shouldn't have had to > > s

Re: UEFI is a POS

2012-11-23 Thread Gary Kline
On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 12:32:25PM -0800, Edik Landaveri wrote: > On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 08:27:55AM -0600, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > Gary, > > Installing a desktop environment & unistalling other shouldn't have had to > screw up your boot sector. I think what you did is inadvertdly changed yo

Re: UEFI is a POS

2012-11-23 Thread Gary Kline
Gents, note that I'm still having a bit of trouble with "mutt-under-fedora." Not intended as a joke or smiley, but worth mentioning. I used red hat when it was free; rather that switch to fedora as a desktop, I eventually chose Ubuntu. AFAIC, no distro of linux is 'perfect' -- I have had to d

Re: UEFI is a POS

2012-11-23 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Edik Landaveri wrote: > Installing a desktop environment & unistalling other shouldn't have had to > screw up your boot sector. I think what you did is inadvertdly changed your > bios settings. If it was working before and after that no. Do you remember > having played with the BIOS settings? Yo

Re: UEFI is a POS

2012-11-23 Thread Edik Landaveri
On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 08:27:55AM -0600, Michael Cronenworth wrote: Gary, Installing a desktop environment & unistalling other shouldn't have had to screw up your boot sector. I think what you did is inadvertdly changed your bios settings. If it was working before and after that no. Do you reme

Have to keep reinstalling LILO was Re: UEFI is a POS

2012-11-23 Thread Robert Myers
On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 2:45 AM, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > There is a default location for the EFI loader that Fedora is not using (but > is for USB/CD). While we are on the subject of boot loaders: I have been wiping hard disks from systems that are no longer in use. One disk, which had bee

Re: UEFI is a POS

2012-11-23 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Gary Kline wrote: > Question: will new brand new fedora CD have this "efibootmgr" > or do I have to goto the rodsbooks.com url and fmess around? Yes, it should have it. The alternative is to try and copy the /boot/efi/EFI/redhat folder to /boot/efi/EFI/boot and inside of the new folde

Re: UEFI is a POS

2012-11-23 Thread Gary Kline
On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 01:45:17AM -0600, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > -Saw an update for my motherboard[1]. Cool! > -Downloaded the update and applied it. > -System wouldn't boot. Cannot find a boot drive. Hard drive > is detected... but won't boot? > -Downgrade to old UEFI, play with settings. S

UEFI is a POS

2012-11-23 Thread Michael Cronenworth
-Saw an update for my motherboard[1]. Cool! -Downloaded the update and applied it. -System wouldn't boot. Cannot find a boot drive. Hard drive is detected... but won't boot? -Downgrade to old UEFI, play with settings. Still won't boot. -Google. -Find http://www.rodsbooks.com/efi-bootloaders/insta