[Novalug] SOLVED Re: Hosed uefi system
Maxwell Spangler
maxlists@maxwellspangler.com
Tue Jul 9 02:15:41 EDT 2013
You know... A real Linux user would just have PXE booted from their home
network using a variety of Linux flavors :)
Perhaps you could integrate setting up a PXE server as part of a certain
persons home schooling education? :)
On Mon, 2013-07-08 at 13:06 -0400, greg pryzby wrote:
> The problem was USB Thumb Drive bootable != DVD/CD-ROM
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> If you can't get anything to boot, you can't do a thing.
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> DVD/CD can boot and you can get most OSs to install.
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> UEFI because that is what was available in the form factor and cheap.
> Turning it 'off in the BIOS' only does so much I found.
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> On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 12:43 PM, James Ewing Cottrell, III
> <jecottrell3@comcast.net> wrote:
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> That could also be a BIOS setting. Sometimes (as with Dells)
> you have thre options for USB:
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> disabled, enabled, enabled and bootable.
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> Also be aware that USBs can emulate a Floppy, a CD, or a Disk.
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> JIM
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "greg pryzby" <greg@pryzby.org>
> Subject: Re: [Novalug] Hosed uefi system
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> It appears that USB boot and CD/DVD boot are NOT equal.
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> DVD boot and I got something to install.
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