Re: Use GParted to make bootable USB

From	Bobbie Sellers <bliss@mouse-potato.com>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.misc
Subject	Re: Use GParted to make bootable USB
Date	2023-02-21 22:30 -0800
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On 2/18/23 19:24, 25B.R866 wrote:
> On 2/18/23 9:21 AM, Richard Kettlewell wrote:
>> "25B.R866" <25B.R866@noaaba.net> writes:
>>>    Most modern bootable USBs also incorporate
>>>    a UEFI (a M$ abomination) partition a the
>>>    very start. You, kinda, CAN fake that with
>>>    gparted - create a FAT-32 part at the very
>>>    beginning, but it's not guarenteed to work
>>>    since special code needs to be loaded INTO
>>>    the little partition.
>>
>> It’s an industry-wide design, not unique to Microsoft.
>    But it was a M$-driven PLOT - mostly to hurt Linux.
> 
>> The thing you
>> need to copy into it is your boot loader. Conceptually it’s not much
>> different from installing a boot loader into a boot sector. The
>> practical differences are that you can have more than one operating
>> system’s boot loader there, and you have more than 512 bytes to play
>> with before having to chain to something else.
> 
>    With GRUB you only need to load ONE thing, GRUB, at
>    boot. Then IT takes care of all the alternatives. It
>    will work just fine from a non-UEFI medium.
> 
>    Now if, for some reason, you don't WANT to use anything
>    like GRUB then, yea, the data in the UEFI can theoretically
>    boot multiple systems (until M$ decides it shouldn't by
>    adding a few 'poison' bytes somewhere (they'll call it
>    a 'security enhancement')).

	When a Windows system updates its kernel it will mess up
the UEFI and you will have to reinstall your boot loader from a
live distro.  PCLinux has a script for this called "Redo Bootloader".

bliss-“Nearly any fool can use a GNU/Linux computer. Many do.”
			After all here I am... Again.

-- 
bliss dash SF 4 ever at dslextreme dot com

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  Re: Use GParted to make bootable USB "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2023-02-15 23:01 +0100
  Re: Use GParted to make bootable USB Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2023-02-15 22:11 +0000
    Re: Use GParted to make bootable USB Bobbie Sellers <bliss@mouse-potato.com> - 2023-02-15 16:34 -0800
    Re: Use GParted to make bootable USB Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> - 2023-02-16 10:59 +0200
  Re: Use GParted to make bootable USB "David W. Hodgins" <dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org> - 2023-02-15 20:11 -0500
  Re: Use GParted to make bootable USB "25B.R866" <25B.R866@noaaba.net> - 2023-02-18 03:38 -0500
    Re: Use GParted to make bootable USB The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2023-02-18 09:59 +0000
      Re: Use GParted to make bootable USB "25B.R866" <25B.R866@noaaba.net> - 2023-02-18 22:04 -0500
        Re: Use GParted to make bootable USB "David W. Hodgins" <dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org> - 2023-02-18 23:34 -0500
        Re: Use GParted to make bootable USB The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2023-02-19 11:25 +0000
          Re: Use GParted to make bootable USB "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2023-02-19 12:50 +0100
            Re: Use GParted to make bootable USB Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2023-02-19 14:30 +0000
    Re: Use GParted to make bootable USB "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2023-02-18 12:29 +0100
      Re: Use GParted to make bootable USB "25B.R866" <25B.R866@noaaba.net> - 2023-02-18 22:15 -0500
    Re: Use GParted to make bootable USB Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2023-02-18 14:21 +0000
      Re: Use GParted to make bootable USB "25B.R866" <25B.R866@noaaba.net> - 2023-02-18 22:24 -0500
        Re: Use GParted to make bootable USB "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2023-02-19 12:26 +0100
        Re: Use GParted to make bootable USB Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2023-02-19 14:21 +0000
          Re: Use GParted to make bootable USB "25B.E866" <25B.E866@noaaba.net> - 2023-02-20 21:53 -0500
            Re: Use GParted to make bootable USB Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2023-02-21 08:39 +0000
              Re: Use GParted to make bootable USB The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2023-02-21 10:53 +0000
                Re: Use GParted to make bootable USB Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2023-02-21 11:42 +0000
                Re: Use GParted to make bootable USB "25B.E866" <25B.E866@noaaba.net> - 2023-02-22 01:08 -0500
                Re: Use GParted to make bootable USB "25B.E866" <25B.E866@noaaba.net> - 2023-02-22 01:38 -0500
                Re: Use GParted to make bootable USB "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2023-02-23 12:15 +0100
                Re: Use GParted to make bootable USB Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2023-02-23 13:16 +0000
                Re: Use GParted to make bootable USB "25B.E866" <25B.E866@noaaba.net> - 2023-02-23 21:27 -0500
                Re: Use GParted to make bootable USB Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2023-02-24 09:20 +0000
                Re: Use GParted to make bootable USB "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2023-02-24 14:03 +0100
            Re: Use GParted to make bootable USB The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2023-02-21 10:38 +0000
              Re: Use GParted to make bootable USB Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2023-02-21 19:12 +0000
                Re: Use GParted to make bootable USB The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2023-02-22 13:26 +0000
        Re: Use GParted to make bootable USB Bobbie Sellers <bliss@mouse-potato.com> - 2023-02-21 22:30 -0800

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