On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 10:40:20AM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote: >On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 10:18:00PM -0500, Dan Norton wrote: >> Installing either stretch or buster via netinst results in changes to >> the bios menu. Under "UEFI Boot Sources" the term "Hard Drive" is >> replaced with "debian" and this entry is put first in the boot order. >> >> The PC is: >> Hewlett-Packard HP Pro 3400 Series MT/2ABF, BIOS 7.16 03/23/2012 >> >> Please tell me the justification for putting "debian" in the menu and >> having it boot first, ahead of CD/DVD/USB. Thanks. > >With UEFI, adding an entry to the boot meny is what you do when you >install an OS you want to be able to boot. UEFI does not rely on the >boot sector anymore the way legacy BIOS did. > >Adding it first makes sense since why install it if you don't want to >use it? Advanced users can always rearrange the order if they want >something else. No way an installer could guess where in an existing >list to insert itself. First is the only sane default option. > >Having a system default to booting from USB or CD makes no sense and is >rather unsafe too. > >Installing windows does the same thing, as it should.
You beat me to it Lennart - this is exactly what I was just about to write. :-) Dan: this is the standard way that things are meant to work with UEFI; it's rather more sophisticated than older BIOS setups... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com "This dress doesn't reverse." -- Alden Spiess
