Re: Basic concepts and proper useage of UEFI
rowlett@cloud85.net wrote:
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>This post was prompted by recent discussion of problems/cautions
>concerning UEFI. All my machines boot in Legacy BIOS mode and I have
>minimal background in UEFI.
>
>A preliminary web search yielded:
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>> http://x86asm.net/articles/introduction-to-uefi/
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>> https://blog.thomasmarcussen.com/tag/configmgr/
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>> https://blog.thomasmarcussen.com/unified-extensible-firmware-interface-uefi/
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>> https://wiki.restarters.net/UEFI_and_GPT
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>> http://x86asm.net/articles/others/index.html
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>> https://www.thomas-krenn.com/en/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table
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>I have not yet read these in detail. Is there other introductory
>material that would be recommended.
I've alwo written a lot about UEFI in relation to Debian in the wiki:
https://wiki.debian.org/UEFI
>Also, in https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2019/05/msg00107.html , it
>was suggested that a separate thread be begun on the question of
> "Whether or not you can update/install UEFI if you are not booted
> into UEFI."
The normal way to use a system with UEFI firmware involves
using/updating boot variables via UEFI Runtime Services. You can only
set those variables up when your system is already running in UEFI
mode.
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