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Select the option to "Enable EFI" for a virtual machine. You can experiment with the UEFI Shell using the VirtualBox virtual machine software. So, first you have to create a thumb drive, CD or DVD that can boot into the UEFI Shell as a default boot option. Obviously, if you're installing the shell, it isn't in your boot menu. On other systems you have to copy the UEFI shell executable file to your EFI System Partition and then boot it. So, how do you boot into a UEFI Shell? Some UEFI firmware comes with a UEFI Shell and has a boot entry or hot key to boot into the shell. The only concern is to make sure that your UEFI Shell is the same version, or close to the UEFI firmware. Most of the commands use required UEFI system functions, so they generally all work. A UEFI Shell has a standard set of commands defined by the UEFI specification. One answer to the problem is to boot into a UEFI Shell (UEFI text command console) so that you can enter commands to manage boot entries.
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Ubuntu and other Linux distros will usually add their boot entries.īut, what do you do if you want to add your own, and your motherboard provides no way to easily add boot entries? The MSI Creator X288 that I have is like that. Windows will add its own and make it the default, sometimes even if you don't want that. One of the more frustrating things about UEFI is that every implementation has different support for creating and managing the firmware boot entries.
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