Well sometimes you buy hardware that has software made by morons. For example HP
laptops. I recently faced this situation with my HP lappy.
Now HP laptops are good pieces of hardware but my experiences say they usually
have very bad BIOS that does not allow you to tinker it much. One time another
HP laptop actually stopped booting when all I did was update the BIOS because
it just wanted to get updated from a 32-bit OS not a 64-bit one. Anyways my
lappy also has a very stupid UEFI. Now this one has a hardon for
windows. What it does is if it finds windows efi file in your computer then it
will only ever boot from that file and will happily neglect any changes that
you make in the mean time. So our problem arises thusly:
You basically want to switch from windows and go the linuxy way of things and
one fine day decide to install it on your machine. After carefully searching
through the distro muck you select your favorite one and on you go forward in
your journey. But when the install is finished and the computer reboots. Well
long story short you will still boot into windows. As said above the damn thing
will only ever search for windows efi and will happily neglect your linux efi
entry. No matter how much h4x0r!n9 you do by changing efi file order it will
still boot into windows
But no worries like always where there is a will there is a way. So hop on for
one hell of a solution to this mess.
