BIU Unable to boot Windows

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TeraByte Support
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Re: BIU Unable to boot Windows Due to old Intel Code

Post by TeraByte Support »

You would need to tell them this is for the BIOS software engineers to look
at. The level one guys will only say, we only support booting Windows or
something stupid like that, instead of actually caring about fixing the BIOS
to work properly. The guys who actually take care of the BIOS may be
interested, if it can get to them and they can reproduce. Granted they
probably never tested bringing a file system down then back up (a few ways
to do it but we choose what worked on most systems). Most of the systems
support it, especially the newer 2016+ ones. Be nice to for them to all get
rid of the rename bug though.

There is a version in the works with another option to at least allow you to
get out of the boot menu to desktop/partition work. But you'll still have
an issue transferring over to scripting or imaging since it won't be able to
read the name/key (we may have a way around that), but then you'll end up
with the image version with no graphic on the left or buttons, etc.. but
again, we may be able to work around that too; by bypassing the UEFI file
system and directly accessing it. Oh and you'll have to boot from other
media in that case to make changes to the efi system partition since it
won't be "lockable" like it normally is.




"tas3086" wrote in message news:15265@public.bootitbm...

TeraByte Support wrote:
> The problem is in the UEFI code (FAT32 support was provided by Intel).
> They should all be using the same EDK code base without too many
> customizations, so when bugs fixed and applied, should be easy to roll out
> for them and bugs would be fixed for everyone. I'll go ahead and report
> it, I guess I could fix it, but the maintainer could do it in a jiffy.

I reported it as a problem to AsRock Support. Evidently they do not see it
as a problem in their motherboard, as there I no problem with the operation
aspects of the motherboard: "You did not mentioned anything about having
problems with this motherboard. Please provide details about your problem
or complete description of the implemented option you are looking for."

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Any ideas how I can reply to them in terms that they would understand and
would want to fix the problem. Thanks

PS: Although it is messy, it appears that managing EFS files and associated
windows files myself is working, but would be nicer if BIU could do it.
BIU - NICE JOB !

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