Hi
just installed fedora 18 on a uefi system, dual booting with windows 8 and debian wheezy. fedora installed its boot loader into the ESP partition under /boot/efi/EFI/fedora.
but also a System folder and a file named mach_kernel under /boot/efi which is the root of the ESP partition. the content of mach_kernel is "This file is required for booting" . fedora also took control as the main os to boot, I guess by writing it to the NVRAM. I then installes rEFInd as my boot manager which override it in NVRAM.
it all works, but my question is:
what is the System folder and the mach_kernel are? and can I remove them now when I installed rEFInd?
in /boot/efi/EFI/fedora there is shim.efi and shim_fedora.efi, I guess those are for secure boot right? I also have en entry in rEFInd for shim fedora ,I don't mind them , I will probably remove that from rEFInd because I disabled secure boot.
Thank you.
just installed fedora 18 on a uefi system, dual booting with windows 8 and debian wheezy. fedora installed its boot loader into the ESP partition under /boot/efi/EFI/fedora.
but also a System folder and a file named mach_kernel under /boot/efi which is the root of the ESP partition. the content of mach_kernel is "This file is required for booting" . fedora also took control as the main os to boot, I guess by writing it to the NVRAM. I then installes rEFInd as my boot manager which override it in NVRAM.
it all works, but my question is:
what is the System folder and the mach_kernel are? and can I remove them now when I installed rEFInd?
in /boot/efi/EFI/fedora there is shim.efi and shim_fedora.efi, I guess those are for secure boot right? I also have en entry in rEFInd for shim fedora ,I don't mind them , I will probably remove that from rEFInd because I disabled secure boot.
Thank you.