* Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> [03-24-19 18:59]:
Patrick Shanahan composed on 2019-03-24 16:22 (UTC-0400):
jdd@dodin.org composed:
machine bios does not provide any means I can see to boot one installed system over another past secure vs legacy. if you refer bios to EFI, how do you access w/o using efibootmgr?
neither in boot bios menu?
now maybe I am being dense, but what is "boot bios menu"?
I don't know if there is a universal name for what he's described, but surely this is it: https://www.disk-image.com/faq-bootmenu.htm boot menu column.
in the machine bios I can set which "dev" boot before others such as> optical/dvd/usb/hard-drive/... but not which operating system, unless I actually plug in a device high in order.
On my newest Asus, a UEFI Kaby Lake purchased 9 months ago, @POST screen:
F8 = "Please select boot device:"
DEL = enter BIOS setup Boot -> UEFI Hard drive priorities # set default boot "device"
On my newest Gigabyte, a UEFI Kaby Lake purchased 15 months ago, @POST screen:
F12 = "Please select boot device:"
DEL = enter BIOS setup BIOS -> Boot Option Priorities -> Boot Option #1 # set default boot device
In both, "Please select boot device" really means select UEFI boot entry corresponding to the head of the BootOrder in efibootmgr output.
These correspond to selection of boot "device" in pre-UEFI PCs, which on my Dells is also F12.
cannot attempt atm, doing partition backup, but... f12 at boot presents "device" order menu, usb/optical/hdd/pxe. I recall no options for an operating system or UEFI menu entry for a particular system. my toshiba satellite is: Machine: Type: Laptop System: TOSHIBA product: Satellite S55-C v: PSPTNU-00E00M serial: XF169121C Mobo: FF50 model: 06F2 v: Type2 - Board Version serial: QC0B0Q8F4102846 UEFI: INSYDE v: 5.10 date: 09/11/2015 -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA @ptilopteri http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member facebook/ptilopteri Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://linuxcounter.net Photos: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/piwigo paka @ IRCnet freenode -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-support+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-support+owner@opensuse.org