Re: [Salix-main] New tool: GUEFI

[tim.beech <tim...@gm...>]

Great stuff! And it works! The best thing about it is the option to
change the path to what is booted. I have all sorts of crud in my /boot
from various attempts to get going with EFI, and I had been booting with
ReFind, which I dsabled in Guefi, and the first time, indeed the system
wouldn't boot at all, but I just had to boot once more in ReFind using
the BIOS popup menu, and corrected the boot path needed for Salix. So
now my machine just boots straight into it.

Unfortunately, I have no Windows, to test how that plays out.

It's brilliant, and I am hopeful it will prove to be newbie-friendly as
well. If I have time, I will write a section for the Startup Guide on
it.

On Fri, 15 Jul 2016, George Vlahavas wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> we have a new GUI system tool! This one is a GTK+3 frontend for efibootmgr
> and can be used in UEFI systems for managing UEFI boot options. Since it
> only makes sense to run it in UEFI systems, this means it can be used in
> 64-bit systems only.
>
> Using GUEFI you can:
> * Create a new UEFI boot entry
> * Edit a UEFI boot entry
> * Delete a UEFI boot entry
> * Change the UEFI boot order
> * Enable/disable a UEFI boot entry
> * Configure a UEFI boot entry to be the default during the next boot only
>
> The guefi package is now included in the 14.2 repositories. You should be
> able to get it with:
> sudo slapt-get -i guefi
>
> as soon as your mirror syncs. If you want to get it before that, I have
> also uploaded it here:
> http://people.salixos.org/gapan/guefi/
>
> Since this is new, everyone who can test it, please do so and report back.
> It has already received some testing (thanks laprjns!) so there shouldn't
> be any terrible bugs with it.
>
> It does *not* work in 14.1. So you need a 14.2 64-bit installation to use
> it. It will be included by default in the next beta release.
>
> Now, guefi as all our other tools supports internationalization, so
> translators are requested to visit the transifex resource page and provide
> translations for your own language:
> https://www.transifex.com/gapan/salix/guefi/
>
> (some of you have already spotted the new resource on your own and have
> added translations, so thanks!)
>
> Full source code can be found in github:
> https://github.com/gapan/guefi
>
> Thank you!
>
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