About vendor lock and UEFI boot on fedora

Bastián Díaz diaz.bastian at openmailbox.org
Sat Nov 7 17:20:38 UTC 2015


Hello everyone, I wanted to raise an issue that continues, regarding how 
manufacturers implement the UEFI system on their computers, and how it 
affects users.

In particular, I mean as some companies like Acer, make their laptops 
recognize only the UEFI boot, if and only if the parent folder is called 
"Windows Boot Manager".

This brought me a lot of headaches, particularly because using the 
"legacy bios", the laptop had problems with power management (not turned 
off, restarted, suspended, etc). 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1213216

Initially unaware of the situation, but much searching I found the 
solution. Now my question is: is that the user experience is expected in 
fedora?

Unfortunately, the distribution can not do much about it, unless you can 
document these situations.

In the last week, trying to enable ZSWAP in my system, I realized that 
it is not possible to update the grub after editing the file 
etc/default/grub with the command /boot/efi/EFI/Windows\ Boot\ 
Manager/grub.cfg (modifying the target route). I had to create a file in 
another location and then replace the existing one.

Under these circumstances, the GRUB2 automatic update work?

They will searching the web several cases, particularly with ACER and 
ASUS laptops. My focus is on this issue, as several of these laptops 
(Aspire E 11 "ES1-111M-C6NR) were donated to a high school with 
aspirations to use Linux (fedora) on those computers.

Cheers

-- 
Bastián Díaz
https://telegram.me/diazbastian


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