Systemd Adds Reboot To EFI Firmware Option

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Systemd Adds Reboot To EFI Firmware Option

Systemd has picked up another feature for the upcoming systemd 220 release...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Systemd-Firmware-Setup

[Sonadow]

Nice. I can foresee myself using this feature rather often.

[BlackStar]

Nice. I can foresee myself using this feature rather often.

Indeed, this is quite useful.

[uid313]

Nice

Really nice.

Now I just wish I could run my system with Coreboot and then load TianoCore (a open source UEFI implementation by Intel) as the payload. Instead of running a proprietary UEFI implementation.

[uid313]

Restart to Windows

It would be really nice with a entry to restart to Windows.

[zanny]

Really nice.

Now I just wish I could run my system with Coreboot and then load TianoCore (a open source UEFI implementation by Intel) as the payload. Instead of running a proprietary UEFI implementation.

Gotta talk with your money. Stop buying Intel motherboards, only buy AMD ones (or SoC boards) that support coreboot.

[blackiwid]

Gotta talk with your money. Stop buying Intel motherboards, only buy AMD ones (or SoC boards) that support coreboot.

I just (half a year ago) switched to intel (thinkpad x220 that supports coreboot even its not that easy to install) tell me from a beema or low power kaveri notebook with business quality if possible with dockingstation maybe outdated or cheap (under 1000 dollar at least) and I think about it. Think about it anyway because intel sandy (and most ivy bridge) gpus dont support 60hz with 4k.

[Ericg]

It would be really nice with a entry to restart to Windows.

There's a grub2 option where you can specify the next boot entry. I don't think any display managers actually expose it though

[sjukfan]

What's this reboot thing you talk about?

[gigaplex]

It would be really nice with a entry to restart to Windows.

You don't want to mix Windows with Linux in dual-boot on UEFI systems. Whenever you boot to Windows via UEFI, it re-registers itself as the default boot option. You then need to go into the UEFI configuration menu before you're able to boot back to Linux. On my particular system that I've tried it on, more than 50% of the time the UEFI lost the GRUB option in the process of Windows re-registering itself, requiring a recovery boot to reinstall GRUB.