On Sun, Apr 10, 2022 at 7:08 PM Gabriel Ramirez <gabrielo(a)aekert.com> wrote:
On 4/10/22 16:10, Neal Gompa wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 10, 2022 at 4:37 PM Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski
> <dominik(a)greysector.net> wrote:
>> On Friday, 08 April 2022 at 16:14, Zamir SUN wrote:
>> [...]
>>> Probably it isn't a problem for some users, but I'm still having
bad
>>> experience with UEFI on x86_64 now. Out of my 3 machines I only have 1
>>> system that works fine with UEFI. And my parents' laptop was purchased
>>> 2 years ago and the UEFI firmware does not allow to boot anything
>>> other than Windows on UEFI mode (regardless of turning secure boot on
>>> or off) and I have to switch to BIOS mode to make Fedora work there.
>>> So in this situation, I think it's way too aggressive to accept the
>>> change - this will probably drive away some potential new users with
>>> decent laptop like my parents'.
>> Have you tried renaming your Fedora boot entry to "Windows Boot
>> Manager"? I have one Sony laptop that boots only the boot entry with
>> that exact name.
>>
> I wonder if this would work with one of my old machines too. I've
> never thought to rename the boot entry in the firmware before...
>
>
about "Windows Boot Manager" efi entry required to boot:
https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/20187.html
the above happens too with the lenovo thinkcentre m91
From the blog post:
For now, if you want to run Fedora[2] on these systems you're
probably best off changing the firmware to perform a legacy boot.
*sigh*
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