Re: Boot Order

[Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com>]

On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 10:40:20AM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
>On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 10:18:00PM -0500, Dan Norton wrote:
>> Installing either stretch or buster via netinst results in changes to
>> the bios menu. Under "UEFI Boot Sources" the term "Hard Drive" is
>> replaced with "debian" and this entry is put first in the boot order.
>> 
>> The PC is:
>> Hewlett-Packard HP Pro 3400 Series MT/2ABF, BIOS 7.16 03/23/2012
>> 
>> Please tell me the justification for putting "debian" in the menu and
>> having it boot first, ahead of CD/DVD/USB. Thanks.
>
>With UEFI, adding an entry to the boot meny is what you do when you
>install an OS you want to be able to boot.  UEFI does not rely on the
>boot sector anymore the way legacy BIOS did.
>
>Adding it first makes sense since why install it if you don't want to
>use it?  Advanced users can always rearrange the order if they want
>something else.  No way an installer could guess where in an existing
>list to insert itself.  First is the only sane default option.
>
>Having a system default to booting from USB or CD makes no sense and is
>rather unsafe too.
>
>Installing windows does the same thing, as it should.

You beat me to it Lennart - this is exactly what I was just about to
write. :-)

Dan: this is the standard way that things are meant to work with UEFI;
it's rather more sophisticated than older BIOS setups...

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Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.                                steve@einval.com
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