agelord@lemmy.worldcake to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 1 year agoThose who tried Linux and went back to Windows, what caused you to go back to Windows?message-squaremessage-square580fedilinkarrow-up1279arrow-down114file-text
arrow-up1265arrow-down1message-squareThose who tried Linux and went back to Windows, what caused you to go back to Windows?agelord@lemmy.worldcake to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 1 year agomessage-square580fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarejerdle_lemmy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year agoFucking up my UEFI on my laptop, making it difficult to boot into Linux. Undoing that.
minus-squareZozano@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-21 year agoBootloaders don’t interact with the UEFI, the UEFI interacts with the bootloader. Sounds like you just used a bad one. systemd-boot is superb, it autodetects all kernals and shows an option to access the UEFI. Windows however, assumes it owns your boot partition, so likes to delete Linux bootloaders if installed last.
minus-squarejerdle_lemmy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 year agoI don’t mean my bootloader though. The UEFI menu can’t be accessed using the standard method of pressing a key.
minus-squareZozano@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-21 year agoI would look for a setting in the UEFI to delay the startup, it might be that it’s too quick. If you need to reboot into the UEFI you can use: systemctl reboot --firmware-setup
Fucking up my UEFI on my laptop, making it difficult to boot into Linux.
Undoing that.
Bootloaders don’t interact with the UEFI, the UEFI interacts with the bootloader.
Sounds like you just used a bad one. systemd-boot is superb, it autodetects all kernals and shows an option to access the UEFI.
Windows however, assumes it owns your boot partition, so likes to delete Linux bootloaders if installed last.
I don’t mean my bootloader though. The UEFI menu can’t be accessed using the standard method of pressing a key.
I would look for a setting in the UEFI to delay the startup, it might be that it’s too quick.
If you need to reboot into the UEFI you can use: