Then I stand corrected. Thank you for pointing this out. FOr me, the simpler the better. I'll try to deal with it, though. Alan On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 5:19 PM, Daniel Micay <danielmicay@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 01/05/14 08:06 PM, Alan E. Davis wrote: > > I don't understand what is the entry, or fallback entry, or "run the > > entry." I'm sorry. > > > > I'm going to try again later. In fact, I may take the undesireable step > of > > installing from Manjaro or whatever is the shortcut way to install Arch > > Linux these days. > > > > On the one hand, I don't care to learn about what's Micro$oft's latest > > tortuous trick it has played on the users; and on the other hand, I do > > value to learn the nuts and bolts of GNU/Linux. > > > > Thank you very much. I am willing to give it one more try. I might even > > try to install grub in a partition, as apparently is what Ubuntu has > > done. > > (U)EFI was created by Intel replace legacy BIOS, it had nothing to do > with Microsoft. AFAIK, OS X adopted it long before Windows. I'm not sure > why you keep mentioning Microsoft over and over. > > Arch has great UEFI support and it results in a significant improvement > in boot time compared to legacy BIOS booting. The gummiboot loader is a > huge simplication over grub, so there's not much to complain about there > either. > >
