mint 20 efi boot partition quit booting

[geek at uniserve.com]

On Monday 20/07/2020 at 11:42 am, Liam Proven  wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Jul 2020 at 19:17, <geek at uniserve.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> this turned out to be the issue. Samsung has not made provision for a
>> user upgradable BIOS
>
> I do not believe that. I have not seen an x86 PC whose firmware can't
> be updated since the 1980s.
>
> Can you give me the _exact_ model number and I will look for you?

like this:

 # dmidecode 3.2
Getting SMBIOS data from sysfs.
SMBIOS 2.6 present.
62 structures occupying 2419 bytes.
Table at 0x000E0850.

Handle 0x0000, DMI type 0, 24 bytes
BIOS Information
        Vendor: Phoenix Technologies Ltd.
        Version: 02FQ
        Release Date: 09/29/2011
        Address: 0xE0000
        Runtime Size: 128 kB
        ROM Size: 2560 kB
        Characteristics:
                PCI is supported
                BIOS is upgradeable
                BIOS shadowing is allowed
                Boot from CD is supported
                Selectable boot is supported
                EDD is supported
                Print screen service is supported (int 5h)
                8042 keyboard services are supported (int 9h)
                Serial services are supported (int 14h)
                Printer services are supported (int 17h)
                CGA/mono video services are supported (int 10h)
                NEC PC-98
                ACPI is supported
                USB legacy is supported
                BIOS boot specification is supported
                Function key-initiated network boot is supported
                Targeted content distribution is supported
        BIOS Revision: 0.1

Handle 0x0001, DMI type 1, 27 bytes
System Information
        Manufacturer: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
        Product Name: 900X1B
        Version: 0.1

>
>
>
>>
>> so I went carefully through the settings and
>> there
>> was a switch to PREVENT UEFI booting. Toggled it and all is good
>
> UEFI is a minefield. :-(
>
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