On Thursday, 26 September 2019 16:44:10 BST Mick wrote: > On Thu, 26 Sep 2019 at 15:47, Peter Humphrey <pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk> wrote: > > On Thursday, 26 September 2019 10:16:54 BST Adam Carter wrote:
[Snip interesting stuff] > > > I got the impression that I would be able to UEFI boot from multiple > > > different devices, eg a USB drive with UEFI as well as the hard disk. > > I may be wrong, but I don't think this is possible (yet?). You could > use a secondary bootloader, e.g. GRUB, other than the UEFI firmware to > load OS kernels wherever they might be positioned on the system. But see next: > > Oh yes, removable devices can be booted, but not secondary, internal hard > > drives. Apparently. On this system. Today. I can boot from USB or CD drives by entering the UEFI BIOS at boot and selecting the one I want to boot from - and this BIOS dates from 2014. I doubt this is unusual. > [1] https://uefi.org/specifications I'll go and look - thanks Mick. -- Regards, Peter.
