On Sat, 31 Dec 2016, Gene Heskett wrote:
On Saturday 31 December 2016 12:56:59 Felmon Davis wrote:
greets!
I want to install Trinity on a multiboot uefi system. I think I've
messed up the uefi already so I am wary about doing something that
renders the system unbootable. (will of course do backup but still...)
it's got Windows 7 and NetRunner on it. csm is turned on (which I
think is part of the problem) and of course secure boot and fast boot
are off.
CSM? Definition plz.
I'd have to google what the acronym stands for but it's a utility in
UEFI which allows 'legacy' booting, that is, booting via the MBR.
So am I as I've not bought a board with a UEFI bios on it yet. However,
there is not a single reason trinity, to my knowledge, writes anything
to the MBR.
not sure what you mean: that's where some of the partitioning code
used to lodge. I forget the details but something like BIOS jumps to
code in the MBR which knows the partitioning scheme. UEFI, replacing
BIOS, uses a different process. details cloudy. the crucial code is in
a uefi-boot partition.
I don't like it defaulting to NetRunner since I wanted it to default
to grub and then I could manage everything there. I'd like Windows,
NetRunner (soon Maui?) and Trinity. I may remove NetRunner in the
longer run but it's been fun and useful.
f.
--
Felmon Davis
Getting into trouble is easy.
-- D. Winkel and F. Prosser
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