Re: New UEFI guide on the wiki

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On Tue, Feb 04, 2014 at 10:30:58AM -0800, Andrew Lutomirski wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 10:19 AM, Chris Murphy <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Feb 4, 2014, at 10:42 AM, Andrew Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >> I think that half the difficulty here is that UEFI is annoying and the
> >> other half is that both GRUB2 and efibootmgr are miserable.
> >
> > For single OS installs, you shouldn't have to interact with any of those things. shim.efi, or shim via fallback.efi (?) will even do a fallback boot of Fedora if NVRAM has somehow been vanquished.
> 
> How does firmware find shim.efi?  Is it installed as bootx64.efi?
> IIRC that approach used to be frowned upon.

It installs a fallback loader as bootx64.efi which then creates new boot 
entries for any installed operating systems it can find.

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