On 24 Apr 2020, Phillip Susi stated: > > Nix writes: > >> Agreed. I avoided GPT like the plague for ages (shoddy early-2010s >> motherboard firmware), but once I switched to it it was so much easier >> to manage than old-style BIOS, and so much easier to deal with when >> disaster struck, that I'd never consider going back. Does the BIOS have >> anything like an EFI shell? No, no it doesn't. Can you hack your own > > My current and previous motherboard with UEFI boot support did not come > with the shell. I once tried downloading one and running it but never > could find anything useful to do with it. It's mostly useful for emergency recovery, I'll admit :) > I also haven't ever been able > to find any useful UEFI drivers or programs. They are very thin on the ground :( a shame, really: it seems like something you *should* be able to use to build whole rescue environments, but nooo. I guess it *is* easier to stick those in an initramfs linked into a kernel built as an EFI stub, since at least it's a Linux rather than the rather weird PE-based environment which is EFI.
