On Fri, 24 Dec 2021 at 19:00, Tom Horsley <horsley1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I recently got a new mini PC that is UEFI only. Out of curiosity > I started reading about the EFI shell. I now have only one > question: Would any "ordinary" user ever have any reason to > use the EFI shell? (Secondary question: Would he be able to > anyway?) > Apple has had their own version of EFI for years. At work, we replaced SGI workstations with Apple Systems but also needed linux. I had a few encounters with the EFI shell trying to sort out boot issues. Back then, I found a GUI tool, rEFIt, which is no longer being maintained, but seems to have had at least a couple forks. http://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/ claims to support UEFI. The refind page has lots of likes to [U]EFI docs. > Trying to decrypt the things I read I got the impression that > the first thing they did was invent all new jargon to prove > it is nothing like BIOS, then write cryptic descriptions of things > you can't understand without first learning all the new jargon :-). > BIOS was no great feat of engineering either. -- George N. White III
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