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Re: Hardware Advice Wanted: Router

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On Wed, Nov 29, 2023 at 6:17 PM Charles Curley
<charlescurley@charlescurley.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 13 Nov 2023 15:57:28 -0700
> Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> wrote:
>
> > My FIT-PCs that provide network services are getting old, and i386
> > Linux is slowly fading away. So I would like to replace them with a
> > router/gateway computer.
>
> Thank you all for much useful advice. I ended up with an ACEMAGIC T8
> Plus. https://www.acemagic.com/collections/minipcs/products/t8plus
>
> Debian 12 installed nicely, with one glitch. I had shrunk the Windows
> partition in order to install Debian, but left it otherwise intact.
> However the thing insisted on booting to Windows.
>
> To fix it, do the following:
>
> To make the grub bootloader active after installing Linux and GRUB, in
> the firmware:
>
> During boot, hit escape or delete to get into the firmware.
>
> Security -> Secure Boot -> Enabled
>
> Boot -> UEFI BBS Priorities -> Debian boot option
>
> Save & Exit -> Save Changes and Exit
>
> I now get GRUB, which will boot either Debian or Windows.
>
> Note: Memtest86 does not appear to work. I believe that is a known
> problem with UEFI machines.
>
> I am now busy moving network service over to the new machine.

As I understand things, a well functioning UEFI system does not need
to use GRUB. The entries for Linux and Windows will be in the UEFI
boot menu, and you can boot directly using EFI variables.

Jeff

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Hardware Advice Wanted: Router Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2023-11-14 00:00 +0100
  Re: Hardware Advice Wanted: Router jeremy ardley <jeremy.ardley@gmail.com> - 2023-11-14 00:10 +0100
  Re: Hardware Advice Wanted: Router Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org> - 2023-11-14 00:10 +0100
    Re: Hardware Advice Wanted: Router "Alexander V. Makartsev" <avbetev@gmail.com> - 2023-11-14 07:20 +0100
      Re: Hardware Advice Wanted: Router Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2023-11-15 04:00 +0100
        Re: Hardware Advice Wanted: Router "Alexander V. Makartsev" <avbetev@gmail.com> - 2023-11-15 08:40 +0100
          Re: Hardware Advice Wanted: Router Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2023-11-15 14:50 +0100
            Re: Hardware Advice Wanted: Router "Alexander V. Makartsev" <avbetev@gmail.com> - 2023-11-15 22:00 +0100
              Re: Hardware Advice Wanted: Router Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2023-11-15 23:50 +0100
                Re: Hardware Advice Wanted: Router "Alexander V. Makartsev" <avbetev@gmail.com> - 2023-11-16 00:40 +0100
                Re: Hardware Advice Wanted: Router gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2023-11-16 01:00 +0100
    Re: Hardware Advice Wanted: Router debian-user@howorth.org.uk - 2023-11-14 13:40 +0100
  Re: Hardware Advice Wanted: Router Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com> - 2023-11-14 00:50 +0100
  Re: Hardware Advice Wanted: Router Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2023-11-14 02:10 +0100
    Re: Hardware Advice Wanted: Router jeremy ardley <jeremy.ardley@gmail.com> - 2023-11-16 02:10 +0100
      Re: Hardware Advice Wanted: Router Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2023-11-16 03:20 +0100
        Re: Hardware Advice Wanted: Router jeremy ardley <jeremy.ardley@gmail.com> - 2023-11-16 03:40 +0100
      Re: Hardware Advice Wanted: Router Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk> - 2023-11-16 08:50 +0100
        Re: Hardware Advice Wanted: Router jeremy ardley <jeremy.ardley@gmail.com> - 2023-11-16 09:00 +0100
          Re: Hardware Advice Wanted: Router Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk> - 2023-11-16 19:40 +0100
        Re: Hardware Advice Wanted: Router Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2023-11-16 16:50 +0100
          Re: Hardware Advice Wanted: Router basti <mailinglist@unix-solution.de> - 2023-11-16 17:10 +0100
          Re: Hardware Advice Wanted: Router Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk> - 2023-11-16 19:30 +0100
  Re: Hardware Advice Wanted: Router Anssi Saari <anssi.saari@debian-user.mail.kapsi.fi> - 2023-11-14 10:50 +0100
    Re: Hardware Advice Wanted: Router basti <mailinglist@unix-solution.de> - 2023-11-14 11:20 +0100
  Re: Hardware Advice Wanted: Router Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2023-11-30 00:20 +0100
    Re: Hardware Advice Wanted: Router Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com> - 2023-11-30 00:40 +0100
      Re: Hardware Advice Wanted: Router Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2023-11-30 13:00 +0100
        Set UEFI boot target with Windows (was: Hardware Advice Wanted:  Router) Arno Lehmann <al@its-lehmann.de> - 2023-11-30 13:30 +0100
          Re: Set UEFI boot target with Windows Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2023-11-30 13:50 +0100
          Re: Set UEFI boot target with Windows (was: Hardware Advice Wanted:  Router) Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2023-11-30 14:40 +0100
        Getting UEFI to boot Debian (was: Hardware Advice Wanted: Router) Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2023-12-02 18:10 +0100
    Re: Hardware Advice Wanted: Router Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2023-12-02 18:00 +0100
      Re: Hardware Advice Wanted: Router Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2023-12-02 20:00 +0100
        memtest86+ on UEFI (was: Hardware Advice Wanted: Router) Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2023-12-02 20:20 +0100
          Re: memtest86+ on UEFI Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2023-12-03 05:30 +0100

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