[GTALUG] Hints for upgrading

[William Park]

On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 02:30:11AM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> | 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.

I don't remember see Secure Boot in the BIOS for the current machine.
So, maybe, EFI can be run with or without Secure Boot.
-- 
William