On 08/30/2015 12:14 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: > I'm really trying to explain this in the simplest terms possible. So, > again, the UEFI firmware loads boot loaders. The boot loaders load > kernels. > > You hit F12 to get a list of UEFI boot targets. What are those > targets? They're boot loaders. They are not kernels. UEFI doesn't > contain a list of kernels. It contains a list of boot loaders. ok, I get that.. > > There are duplicate Fedora and Ubuntu entries because of efibootmgr > commands that have been run. Notably, UEFI is an extremely > complicated spec and there are bugs in many implementations. One that > I've seen documented is that if you specify a boot order that doesn't > contain all of the entries, the firmware may duplicate some in NVRAM. > And if you do it enough to fill NVRAM, the system might stop booting > entirely. do I need to delete duplicates, so there is only 1 fedora, 1 ubuntu, and 1 windows entry? -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux User #367800 and new counter #561587 -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
