[GTALUG] Hints for upgrading

[D. Hugh Redelmeier]

| From: William Park via talk <talk at gtalug.org>

| 4. If you plan to move the harddisk to another machine (like I do), then
| use MBR.  Problem with EFI is that it writes the boot entry in BIOS.
| Well, on a new motherboard, boot entry is not there, so you can't boot.
| You have to dig into EFI shell, and manually select your .efi.

My working hypothesis is that EFI is the future so I use it when I
can.  I am frequently disappointed to discover how clunky an
implementation's user interface is.

If I remember correctly what I was told, the EFI shell cannot be
delivered with machines that have Secure Boot.  Or maybe it is with
machines that have the Windows Logo, at least recently.  So I don't
think that current machines come with an EFI shell.  I don't know if
an EFI shell is generic -- would work on all machines with the same
architecture.