Questions tagged [efi]
EFI stands for Extensible Firmware Interface, and is an updated version of BIOS. It sits between firmware and the operating system in the software stack.
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Deleted my EFI & MSR partitions by error, how to rebuild it?
I accidentally deleted every single partition of my computer except the one that Windows is installed on it. I thought it was a good idea. But it was not.
I have no more MSR or EFI partition, so when ...
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2 EFI on system, which one to remove and how?
I installed Pop OS on my system and on it I created my virtual Mac system Hackintosh.
But I wanted to completely get rid of the Linux Pop OS which I did.
Yet I can see 2 EFI files in my disk ...
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How can I increase my EFI partition size in dual boot? [closed]
I am dualbooting Debian 12 alongside Windows 11. My goal is to increase the size of my EFI partition. I made a new EFI partition using diskpart, I shrinked about 1Gb of my Windows' partition size, and ...
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How to get Bootcamp Windows 10 installation to boot after removing macOS?
The macOS installation on my ageing 2013-model MacBook Pro (MacBookPro10,2, "Early 2013") was becoming unusable, so I went on to replace it with Ubuntu. This worked as a charm, but after ...
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Recovery of grub (in EFI) after starting Windows 10 in dual boot
Well known problem, but unknown solution (at least so far). The question has been asked millions of times, but a solution to this specific case didn't show up while searching. Feel free to point me to ...
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Can an EFI boot table entry override the timeout for GRUB?
It is possible for an entry in the EFI boot table to pass arguments to the stub that it loads. For example, this is commonly used to identify the system root when using the EFI-stub of a Linux Kernel.
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Is it safe to move Windows system partitions with gparted
My disk has the following partitions structure:
old windows recovery partition
EFI
main windows system partition
new Windows recovery partition
free space
I'd like to extend the main partition to ...
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How to fix error: "FAIL: Unable to load driver '\efi\rufus\exfat_x64.efi': [26] Security Violation"
I'm trying to reinstall Windows 10 but the short DST test fails and also it states Unable to load driver '\efi\rufus\exfat_x64.efi': [26] Security Violation.
My laptop is a HP EliteBook 840 G3 1TB ...
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How to Recreate EFI Partition? [closed]
System: Macbook Pro 2019 with Intel & T2, upgraded to Sonoma.
Objective: Dual boot with Fedora.
Trouble: I accidentally deleted the EFI System Partition on MacOS. Now, I do have EFI for T2Linux (...
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How to delete additional EFI (EFI NO NAME), for installing Fedora using T2Linux?
I am trying to dual boot Macbook Pro 2019 with Intel & T2 using https://t2linux.org by installing Linux/ Fedora.
Now, the system is NOT booting to live ISO USB.
**me@mes-MacBook-Pro ~ % diskutil ...
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My Dell OptiPlex 990 boot is very slow and I don’t know why
I have a Dell OptiPlex 990 with good specs like an SSD, i5 2500, and 8GB RAM.
The system is extremely slow when booting from a Ventoy USB flash drive to install Windows or Linux, hanging for a few ...
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Default Windows 11 partitions / partitioning scheme
Sometimes you need to partition your disk which already contains a different operating system (OS) or version of Windows thus you use Linux tools such as fdisk or gdisk to create/configure partitions ...
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Hp 14-dk0xxx BIOS update, but just how?
I have this 14-dk0xxx notebook where I have installed Ubuntu 22 LTS.
I just wanted to update the bios but it seems a mess.
Ok I have no Windows like the other 90% of the users do, so I dowloaded the ....
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Installing Archlinx (Archcraft) alongside Windows 11 w/ EFI, but partition shows MBR?
Installing Archlinux (Archcraft) alongside a pre-installed Windows 11..
I was expecting the Windows EFI system partition to show GPT, but viewing it within a live USB of Archcraft via fdisk -l reveals ...
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How to regenerate Windows boot files without being able to boot into it
So I have an EFI dual boot system with Windows and Arch, and because of some grub tomfoolery I ended up completely wiping the EFI partition and installing systemd-boot. But now I don't have any way to ...
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