Re: F37 Change: Deprecate Legacy BIOS (System-Wide Change proposal)

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On Sun, Apr 10, 2022 at 4:37 PM Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski
<dominik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Friday, 08 April 2022 at 16:14, Zamir SUN wrote:
> [...]
> > Probably it isn't a problem for some users, but I'm still having bad
> > experience with UEFI on x86_64 now. Out of my 3 machines I only have 1
> > system that works fine with UEFI. And my parents' laptop was purchased
> > 2 years ago and the UEFI firmware does not allow to boot anything
> > other than Windows on UEFI mode (regardless of turning secure boot on
> > or off) and I have to switch to BIOS mode to make Fedora work there.
> > So in this situation, I think it's way too aggressive to accept the
> > change - this will probably drive away some potential new users with
> > decent laptop like my parents'.
>
> Have you tried renaming your Fedora boot entry to "Windows Boot
> Manager"? I have one Sony laptop that boots only the boot entry with
> that exact name.
>

I wonder if this would work with one of my old machines too. I've
never thought to rename the boot entry in the firmware before...


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