"Boot Options" not available during EFI boot

[Steffen Winterfeldt]

The difference is that in legacy BIOS mode, isolinux is used as boot 
loader, while in the EFI case grub2 is used.

The 'GUI' is not yet available for grub2.


Steffen

On Sat, 8 May 2021, Chinna, Nanda Kishore wrote:

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> Hi Don,
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> In EFI mode, You can press the Key ‘e’ to get the grub config editor from where you can add the boot parameters
> there.  But I would let SuSE or some one add their thoughts on the GUI design
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> Regards,
> 
> Nanda
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> From: sle-beta <sle-beta-bounces+nanda_kishore_chinna=dell.com at lists.suse.com> On Behalf Of Buchholz, Donald
> Sent: Sunday, May 9, 2021 12:51 AM
> To: sle-beta at lists.suse.com
> Subject: "Boot Options" not available during EFI boot
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> [EXTERNAL EMAIL]
> 
> Hi,
> 
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> Why is it that we can specify “Boot Options” only for ‘BIOS’ boot and not for ‘EFI’ boot?  Our lab hosts are
> firewalled off from the Internet, so being able to specify “self_update=0” option is important to me.
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> Thanks,
> 
> - Don
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> Installer screen when using “BIOS” boot mode:
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> [IMAGE]
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> Installer screen when using “EFI” boot mode:
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> [IMAGE]
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