[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
> 
> 
> If you can't get anything to boot, you can't do a thing.
> 
> 
> DVD/CD can boot and you can get most OSs to install. 
> 
> 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.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 12:43 PM, James Ewing Cottrell, III
> <jecottrell3@comcast.net> wrote:
> 
>         That could also be a BIOS setting. Sometimes (as with Dells)
>         you have thre options for USB:
>         
>         disabled, enabled, enabled and bootable.
>         
>         Also be aware that USBs can emulate a Floppy, a CD, or a Disk.
>         
>         JIM 
>         
>         ----- Original Message -----
>         From: "greg pryzby" <greg@pryzby.org>
>         Subject: Re: [Novalug] Hosed uefi system
>         
>         
>         It appears that USB boot and CD/DVD boot are NOT equal.
>         
>         DVD boot and I got something to install.
>         
> 
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Services
Photography / Graphics Design / Writing
Fort Collins, Colorado
http://www.maxwellspangler.com
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