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"All you ever wanted to know about #UEFI", including:

"Even if you don't grasp the details of this post, grasp this: it is completely different. Completely and utterly different from how #BIOS booting works. You cannot apply any of your understanding of BIOS booting to native UEFI booting. You cannot make a little tweak to a system designed for the world of BIOS booting and apply it to native UEFI booting. You need to understand that it is a completely different world".

happyassassin.net/posts/2014/0

AdamW on Linux and more · UEFI boot: how does that actually work, then?It's AdamW Essay Time again! If you're looking for something short and snappy, look elsewhere. Kamil Paral kindly informs me I'm a chronic sufferer of Graphomania. Always nice to know what's wrong wi
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Now you will ask why I put up a screen cap of Naked.Gun.33.1.3.The.Final.Insult in this thread.

The logic is simple. Because I now have tsc=unstable in my permanent boot options in GRUB, I have achieved playing this 1080p stream on my machine without any hickups of mPlayer!

mPlayer has the gorgeous option of bailing out by itself if you have CPU/GPU/FPU or RAM issues, protecting an unstable machine as my Gigabyte miniPC. Since the switch mPlayer did not have to bail out!

@altbot

#GRUB#bash#csh
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This is the massive list of GRUB sub commands that I have to wade through

I have taken a Higher Grade Android to make this photograph and luckily this camera system knows how to capture the Light of the IPS LED panel in Total Darkness.

Compliments of Open Camera Android version

#bash#csh#ksh
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I'm going to include another photograph to give you an indication of how complex GRUB is in comparison to Legacy Lilo

When I press tab twice in Rapid Succession, the whole screen is filled with commands that I can execute within the GRUB sh {command environment}

I literally have to read all the man pages of those GRUB sub commands which give me an indication that they can do what I want, just so I can pass the parameters to the kernel

GRUB has made the distance between the command prompt and the kernel much bigger!

#bash#csh#ksh