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[ale] EFI dualboot play by play

Looks good!

As time permits, check these out too:

'efibootmgr' is a linux program to check/add/delete/modify your efi boot entries and ordering.

'rEFInd' is an actual EFI boot manager - it finds all of the efi boot entries and other things that look like they might be efi bootable (most modern linux distro-supplied kernels) and offers 'em on a graphical menu at boot.

And here's a good tech-y description of the EFI boot process....
https://www.happyassassin.net/2014/01/25/uefi-boot-how-does-that-actually-work-then/

I did something similar w/ an Asus laptop recently.

later!
   horkan


On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 02:00:50PM -0400, Steve Litt via Ale wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>A couple days ago I installed Void Linux on a Dell Inspiron 15-5570
>laptop, using all EFI and no MBR/legacy. After several missteps, I got
>it to work perfectly. Here's the play-by-play description:
>
>http://troubleshooters.com/linux/void/void_dual_dell.htm
>
>SteveT
>
>Steve Litt
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>http://www.troubleshooters.com/key
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