On Fri, Jun 8, 2018 at 11:47 AM, Samuel Sieb <samuel@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 06/08/2018 07:14 AM, Chris Murphy wrote: >> >> On Thu, Jun 7, 2018, 11:05 PM Samuel Sieb <samuel@xxxxxxxx >> <mailto:samuel@xxxxxxxx>> wrote: >> It's not about where / or /boot are. It's about where it expects the >> system to boot from. It's the same as where to put GRUB on a non-UEFI >> system. >> That's even more ambiguous. It should have no such expectation on UEFI, >> because booting is explicitly set in NVRAM with efibootmgr. > > > No, it's about helping less experienced users, although the wording should > be better and explain the real problem. The BIOS might not look on the > secondary drive for an EFI partition. That is not how UEFI works at all. There is no such thing as primary and secondary drives. There's explicit enumeration in NVRAM boot entries, and there is a well defined implicit enumeration when the explicit order indicates missing devices as well as how to handle removable devices. >In that case, the user will be > wondering why their newly installed system doesn't boot. No, UEFI doesn't work at all like BIOS in this regard. -- Chris Murphy _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/message/OELH3XXVPVXGITL5MEPULB7RPL3L4ZU3/
