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And some devices are simply hardcoded to _always_ boot \EFI\BOOT\BOOTX64.EFI, no matter what. EFI implementations are all over the place. It's gotten somewhat better, but it's hard to rely on anything. But we got decorative flames in the firmware setup dialogues now. Flames make computer go fast.


what kind of exotic devices are you buying to get flames in firmware setuos and not have boot menu?

I've only ever got those white in a blue screen firmwares.


A Lenovo or HPe system won't have that, of course. But I've had plenty of "consumer" boards for my gaming rigs, or handled friends gaming mainboards.

It's not all flames of course. But the design of the firmware UI certainly got really flamboyant when UEFI hit the scene while quality of implementation really suffered.

It's gotten somewhat better, but now it's getting hard to buy non-enterprise hardware without over 9000 RGB LEDs on there. Sigh. At least the LEDs don't bother my bootloader.




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