A review of what EFI boot (UEFI firmware) is, how it works, how it interacts with Linux installations, and a few tips and personal experiences on how to configure and maintain it.

It seems difficult using the built-in system tools on either Windows 10 or Ubuntu to initialize a disk as GPT with an EFI system partition.

The bootkit, dubbed ESPecter by ESET researchers who found it, achieves persistence on the EFI System Partition (ESP) of compromised devices by loading its own unsigned driver to bypass Windows ...

Running an Intel machine, you can't install a system onto an Apple partition scheme disk, but if you start with a disk on which an Intel-appropriate system somehow has been installed, even if it ...

These applications continuously scan the files at the EFI system partition. You can add them to exception, so they don’t scan, and hence it will not be in use.

Intel Security has released a tool that allows users to check if their computer's low-level system firmware has been modified and contains unauthorized code.

Edit to note that I have created a custom backup image choosing just the EFI partition and C drive and that seems to be working--it's running slowly like the successful bare image did.