What is the official word on EFI support?

#1

We have a number of desktop and all-in-one computers that support (U)EFI, and Endless support for EFI booting seems spotty at best. Even our 6th-gen Intel Core series desktops refuse to boot the Endless installer USB in EFI mode. The installer throws up a lot of errors and even if it eventually boots, the machine will refuse to boot in EFI mode unless we switch it back to legacy mode.

I know that Debian supports EFI, so can someone explain to me what the issue is?

#2

Can you please give some information about your devices:

  1. Which vendors are the devices?
  2. Are they all running the latest Firmware?
  3. Is SecureBoot enabled? Which set of Keys is used (Default one provided by the device vendor i assume?)
  4. Can you please try to boot the EFI loader directly after installation if that is possible with these devices. To do so, select the EFI/endless/grubx64.efi Loader (regular one, no SecureBoot), or EFI/endless/shimx64.efi Wrapper (SecureBoot)

Personally i run a few different devices from HP ranging from i7 2nd-Generation to i9 10th-Generation all booting with UEFI without any issues, even with SecureBoot enabled.

#3

Okay, after further digging, it looks like the problem was with Endless 3.7.6, which we have been using for some time. I can’t recreate the problem with the 3.8.4 installer.

We have been disabling Secure Boot as standard procedure. Are you saying that Endless now supports Secure Boot?

#4

Yes SecureBoot is supported

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