Re:“Last Mile” Barriers to Removing Legacy BIOS [pdf]
by 0xcde4c3db on Saturday November 18, 2017 @02:46PM
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The standard supports multiple bootloaders, but specific implementations may be locked down to a single one. Even on systems that support multiple bootloaders, it's pretty common to bypass the built-in menu in favor of a more configurable chainloader like GRUB or rEFInd.
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Re:“Last Mile” Barriers to Removing Legacy BIOS [pdf]
by snuxoll on Saturday November 18, 2017 @03:27PM
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I mean, basically every UEFI implementation I've worked with supports any number of boot entries - but I'm forced to hit a key during startup to even get to the menu to select one. All it would take is an option to present a selection menu every boot (unless the operating system has asked to boot a specific one during a reboot) and I would set my grub timeout to like 2 seconds with no menu by default.