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From windows?
Heh, yeah 😂
By the way you might wanna consider an alternative such as rEFInd if you're using an UEFI (BIOS but newer and shittier thanks to "improved security", full of limits) or "systemd-bootloader"
thank you! I'll note that down for next time
It's objectively better. Rather than having to manipulate raw bytes to change my bootloader, I can just add it to my ESP, which is a partition that the UEFI reads to find what to start on your hard disk. Also, no more 640x480 resolution at boot.
All computers since the late-Windows 7 era use UEFI.
Secure Boot is shit, I agree.
That's why I hated the extra step that I had to do to not corrupt the UEFI while installing a Linux distro years ago... All this new stuff that just locks you and limits you.
Things are better sometimes but in this case they're not.
I literally reinstalled Windows yesterday and systemd-boot went nowhere. Something's wrong with your UEFI implementation. Another laptop I have (HP 2000 Notebook PC, will ALWAYS boot the Microsoft folder if it exists, and there's no ESP. I had to rename the folder.
And by "corrupt the UEFI", do you really know what you're talking about? It's the ESP that contains the bootloaders.
Hold on, I think I didn't explain myself properly.
I've never had any problem, the problem that existed years ago was that you had to manually change things to accomodate UEFI, while installing a Linux distro.
For example, while installing Ubuntu you had to press a key during the splash screen and boot there. It was a simple fix that you had to do while booting the ISO, but it was something not widely known.
Unfortunately not, but I've read that this was a thing, since I didn't want to fry my €1400 laptop I did this simple thing. Later I've seen that this problem was fixed, but I'm talking about years ago, 2019 or so.
And? Windows 7 shits itself on UEFI systems. It's in a sort of limbo when it comes to UEFI support. It has a UEFI compatible version of Windows Boot Manager, but it'll usually hang the computer as soon as it's done booting.
For your last thing, the only thing that can do that is a firmware update.