Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Ticket #14967, comment 19


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Aug 31, 2022, 7:55:52 PM (2 years ago)
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  • Ticket #14967, comment 19

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    11I think a lot of folks here are missing the point.  We need a "minimum viable product" on installing EFI bootloaders.
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    3 If today the installation process involves "slapping down BOOT<arch>.EFI" in a new or existing FAT32 partition, then lets do that.
     3If today the installation process involves "slapping down BOOT<arch>.EFI" in a new or existing FAT32 partition, then lets do that. Is it fully correct? No.  Would it work while we find time + people to improve it? yes.
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    5 Long term we can worry about modifying EFI vars from the OS, etc... however today we have NO solution.  I've repeated this dozens of times over the years... you don't eat an elephant all at once.  It's one bite at a time.
     5Long term we can worry about modifying EFI vars from the OS to choose non-default EFI loader paths, etc... however today we have NO solution. Today we ask users to create their own EFI partition, format it, populate it, and adjust the EFI bootloader via the EFI shell (or whatever their bios supports).
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     7I've repeated this dozens of times over the years... you don't eat an elephant all at once.  It's one bite at a time.