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| From | Arkadiusz Drabczyk <arkadiusz@drabczyk.org> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.os.linux.misc |
| Subject | Re: EUFI and LIVE CD/USB issues |
| Date | 2016-03-13 19:37 +0000 |
| Organization | Daddy, why doesn't this magnet pick up this floppy disk? |
| Message-ID | <nc4fho$fgg$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
| References | <nc2s3k$oe1$1@dont-email.me> |
On 2016-03-13, T <T@invalid.invalid> wrote: > Hi All, > > I can not get my live USB, or CD's for that matter, to boot > with stinkin' EUFI bioses. > > Typically, I can go into bios and set it to boot "legacy", but not > on some computers. Some computer so restrict the heck out of what > you can configure that you can not turn on legacy mode. What's worse is some machines work differently. When I was installing Slackware on EFI machine for the first time I needed to disable legacy BIOS first (I asked o question on LQ about this: https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-installation-40/setup-eliloconfig-fails-because-of-missing-sys-firmware-efi-4175547821/) > How do you guys handle the issue? Last month I successfully installed Slackware on HP-something machine at work. I created a customized ISO image with my own configs and packages with `isohybrid -u'. It worked well, included ISOLINUX was able to start Slackware from USB. Inside installer I make some GPT partitions and a separate EFI partition. To my surprise I wasn't able to load Slackware with elilo after installation finished. I got "Non-system disk or disk error". I enabled Legacy BIOS, installed regular lilo and all worked well. I don't know why elilo didn't work, whether it was broken or a particular implementation of EFI on the machine was buggy. Secure Boot was of course disabled. I don't know what would I do if I wasn't able to switch to legacy mode. The whole EFI thing is a mess. The only point of it is to prevent people from installing non-Window OSes. I even heard that EFI specs do not explicitly require for user to be able to disable Secure Boot. -- Arkadiusz Drabczyk
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EUFI and LIVE CD/USB issues T <T@invalid.invalid> - 2016-03-12 21:02 -0800
Re: UEFI and LIVE CD/USB issues Pascal Hambourg <boite-a-spam@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2016-03-13 11:28 +0100
Re: EUFI and LIVE CD/USB issues Arkadiusz Drabczyk <arkadiusz@drabczyk.org> - 2016-03-13 19:37 +0000
Re: EUFI and LIVE CD/USB issues T <T@invalid.invalid> - 2016-03-13 18:37 -0700
Re: EUFI and LIVE CD/USB issues Roger Blake <rogblake@iname.invalid> - 2016-03-14 02:51 +0000
Re: EUFI and LIVE CD/USB issues Arkadiusz Drabczyk <arkadiusz@drabczyk.org> - 2016-03-14 08:09 +0000
Re: EUFI and LIVE CD/USB issues "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@invalid.es> - 2016-03-14 10:29 +0100
Re: EUFI and LIVE CD/USB issues Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2016-03-14 10:41 +0000
Re: EUFI and LIVE CD/USB issues The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2016-03-14 10:01 +0000
Re: EUFI and LIVE CD/USB issues dlbendigo <laidlaws@hotkey.net.au> - 2016-03-15 08:42 +1100
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