[sf-lug] Meeting notes and Lately at Distrowatch

[tom r lopes]

I was at the coffee on Geary.  Cafe Enchante.  Only me.

As to Ken's adventures in UEFI, grub-install has an option to
write bootx64.efi

grub-install --removable

So you can chroot and run that command.

Some firmwares don't handle the NVRAM properly.

I have seen in some Acer laptops you have to go into bios
setup and specifically anoint the bootloader file.

Thomas

On Sun, Feb 5, 2023 at 6:14 PM Ken Shaffer <kenshaffer80 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2023,2,5
> Attendees:Ron bc, Ken  Victor, Jonathan, Tom, Arron, ...
> Ron mentioned codium and pycharm as possible productivity tools
> for python development, and Ken downloaded the tar balls.  Ken found the
> pycharm
> terms of use seemed a bit snoopy, so locally installed the VScode.
>
> Ken spent some time getting the ssd in a disk caddy transferred from
> his fried Lenovo to an old Toshiba.  Turns out the hardest thing
> was getting the UEFI boot default to be ubuntu instead of Windows.
> The UEFI part seemed to work, efibootmgr wouild change the bootorder,
> but rebooting, the default was Windows again. Can't blame Windows for
> this behavior, since it never ran.  One solution would be to simply copy
> shimx64.efi over the bootmgfw.efi, but Ken found that using Windows'
> bcdeditor allowed a change of {bootmgr} to shim.  bcdedit /enum
> showed the change was proper, but trying to boot it resulted in
> a complaint of a garbled path, looked like shimx64.efi got cut off at
> the initial s.  Anyway, the boot then used the "default" bootloader,
> which is probably the device bootloader in EFI/Boot/bootx64.efi,
> and since that was shim, grub came up, and everything worked as desired,
> even booting Windows.
>
> Jonathan has 6 months to find a replacement for shopify for his web site.
>
> Tom showed a framework laptop disassembly video. It make replacement of
> parts
> easy. He likes the one he got, with an i5 Intel 12th gen.
>
> Please feel free to make additions and/or corrections to what I remember.
> Ken
>
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