Re: Boot Order

[Dan Norton <dnorton@mindspring.com>]

On Mon, 26 Feb 2018 10:40:20 -0500
lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (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.
> 

I would hate to have to do something because windows does it :-)

No one's yet mentioned secure boot as a justification. AIUI some
manufacturers are making it so that you can't even disable secure boot.
How will you multi-boot linux and windows, or replace windows entirely
with such a machine?