RobertX Posted January 14, 2022 Share Posted January 14, 2022 ...as the title says, Im up to 42 entries for uefi partition 1 in boot menu...looking for the cause...and a fix...original bios for board F1 date 2015 ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1Revenger1 Posted January 15, 2022 Share Posted January 15, 2022 What are most of the entries for? Which boot loader are you using? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobertX Posted January 15, 2022 Author Share Posted January 15, 2022 the entries all point to the same uefi partition... where clover resides...I noticed it happening while rebooting, setting up I didn't have the bios settings right for mac..macOS was second boot device...after an unusable windows drive, formatted MBR...so bios was set for legacy boot, not uefi....as I changed the bios and rebooted uefi ....the uefi partition 1 started having babies....and adds another at each reboot....so it's a hardware bios problem I guess... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slice Posted January 15, 2022 Share Posted January 15, 2022 It is BIOS problem. I had this some times ago and cured by flashing new BIOS version. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobertX Posted January 15, 2022 Author Share Posted January 15, 2022 (edited) ...well, current bios F1 includes Q-Flash utility...the utility fails to update bios from usb drive...it sees it, but when I select normal update...fail...any ideas as I have no windows installation to fall back to? ...here is what i get with the bios when I dl from GA mb_bios_ga-q170m-d3h_f23d.zip Edited January 15, 2022 by RobertX removed silly keyboard question Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobertX Posted January 15, 2022 Author Share Posted January 15, 2022 (edited) tried them all...even tried saving existing bios and flash that one...no go ...maybe this topic should also be moved....nothing to do with uefi really...sorry mods Edited January 15, 2022 by RobertX Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobertX Posted January 16, 2022 Author Share Posted January 16, 2022 ...well, got the bios flashed with Q-Flash...one of the bios options on this board, Intel Bios Guard, blocks sw intrusion at bios level...hadn't noticed that... disabled that...rebooted into bios, entered Q-Flash utility and flashed to newest bios F23d... another reboot, no boot to bios...forgot to reset cmos...did that...boot into new bios...now only 3 boot options, uefi partition 1 clover bootloader, uefi partition 1 of thumb drive, was a clover partition where I put my bios to flash, and the third uefi partition2 OS on hitachi, which is my apple os drive...first boot, so some bios settings had to be reconfigured...I notice something new in ioregistry, AppleLMUController under ALS0... ...but anway, thanks for hanging in there with me while I'm re-educating my brain... Les’s iMac after bios update.zip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobertX Posted January 23, 2022 Author Share Posted January 23, 2022 ...mods could mark this solved...just sayin' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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