ubuntu appears in BIOS menu (UEFI)
I've just installed and uninstalled ubuntn and win7 on my laptop for several times, and this happened: see the pictures below.
The first one is about BIOS:
The second is what I got after pressed F12:
I don't know when it appeared for the first time. But, how could this happen?
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@con-f-use: I've used a thumb drive named "Install Ubuntu" to install ubuntu, BIOS Version: 53CN14WW.
@CYREX, @jo-erlend: Yeah, it looks really cool ;) I'm wondering if this could happen on another laptop
@Col: I've pulled out all the USBs while taking those images.
@James Henstridge: I don't know if it's a EFI BIOS, how to distinguish?
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Is there any test that i can run to figure out if it's a uefi/efi bios?
What you see is the a UEFI BIOS. Unlike the legacy BIOS, there's MBR where the bootloaders always try to overwrite each other. Instead, bootloaders are installed in the form:
<EFI system partition>/efi/{vendor}/{file}.efi
The EFI partition is a small, FAT32 formatted partition usually located at the beginning of the hard drive. It stores the bootloaders for all the UEFI compatible operating systems you have installed.
Once a UEFI compatible operating system is installed, it copies the bootloader to the EFI partition and creates an entry in the NVRAM which points to the bootloader. In your case, ubuntu points to
<EFI system partition>/efi/ubuntu/grubx64.efi
Windows, for example, creates an entry called "Windows Boot Manager" pointing to
<EFI system partition>/efi/microsoft/bootmgrw.efi
So, with a UEFI BIOS, you can use its boot menu to select your operating systems, set the default operating system to boot, etc.
Also, Ubuntu 11.04's installer has a bug where it will reformat your EFI partition. So, if you have Windows installed, it will no longer boot. You'll have to install Ubuntu first, then Windows.
EDIT: One more thing :) If you want Windows to show up in the boot menu, you have to boot the install DVD in UEFI mode. There should be an option for that if you look in your BIOS settings.
Hope this helps
Had the same Problem with a Phoenix SecureCore Tiano bios. To remove it I selected the ubuntu entry and pressed DEL a small x appeared at it's left. After saving and rebooting it was gone.