Re: EFI shell?
On Fri, 24 Dec 2021 at 19:00, Tom Horsley <horsley1953(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I recently got a new mini PC that is UEFI only. Out of curiosity
I started reading about the EFI shell. I now have only one
question: Would any "ordinary" user ever have any reason to
use the EFI shell? (Secondary question: Would he be able to
anyway?)
Apple has had their own version of EFI for years. At work, we
replaced SGI workstations with Apple Systems but also needed
linux. I had a few encounters with the EFI shell trying to sort out
boot issues.
Back then, I found a GUI tool, rEFIt, which is no longer being maintained,
but seems to have had at least a couple forks.
http://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/
claims to support UEFI. The refind page has lots of likes to [U]EFI
docs.
Trying to decrypt the things I read I got the impression that
the first thing they did was invent all new jargon to prove
it is nothing like BIOS, then write cryptic descriptions of things
you can't understand without first learning all the new jargon :-).
BIOS was no great feat of engineering either.
--
George N. White III
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