On Mon, 26 Feb 2018 10:40:20 -0500 lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (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. > I would hate to have to do something because windows does it :-) No one's yet mentioned secure boot as a justification. AIUI some manufacturers are making it so that you can't even disable secure boot. How will you multi-boot linux and windows, or replace windows entirely with such a machine?
