Re: Setting up UEFI boot

2016-05-11 Thread ray
How about booting a Live stick1. Download the ISO you want to the stick1. Plug in another stick2 and dd the ISO to the other stick2. Boot stick2.

Re: Setting up UEFI boot

2016-05-05 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Fri, May 6, 2016 at 8:47 AM Stefan Monnier wrote: > > I confirm that gdisk can convert a disk from MBR/MSDOS to GPT from > > within a system running on the disk. > > Indeed that's exactly what I used for that. > > However in this case the disk was GPT partitioned from the start, although not i

Re: Setting up UEFI boot

2016-05-05 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I confirm that gdisk can convert a disk from MBR/MSDOS to GPT from > within a system running on the disk. Indeed that's exactly what I used for that. > Anyway, unless the UEFI firmware is broken, you can boot in UEFI mode > from an MSDOS partitionned disk, provided that you can create a small >

Re: Setting up UEFI boot

2016-05-05 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > As outlined by someone else, this is correct for installation images. > Live images lack a UEFI boot capability. Possibly that someone else was myself after having examined debian-live-8.4.0-amd64-standard.iso . I am now trying to find an old bug report about the "fi

Re: Setting up UEFI boot

2016-05-05 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Stefan Monnier a écrit : >> How can I set up a machine to boot in UEFI mode when the running kernel was >> booted in legacy mode? > > AFAIK it goes something like this: > - Use a GPT partition table, rather than MBR (you can usually convert > from one to the other without reformatting, but that

Re: Setting up UEFI boot

2016-05-05 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Thomas Schmitt a écrit : > > The Debian ISOs for i386 and amd64 are supposed to boot via EFI. As outlined by someone else, this is correct for installation images. Live images lack a UEFI boot capability. However be aware that UEFI comes in two flavours on x86 platforms : 32-bit or 64-bits. Even

Re: Setting up UEFI boot

2016-05-04 Thread real bas
Mark Fletcher, You can do EFI installation[1] (grub-efi will recognize others partitions of GPT table), just switch off Secure Boot and reboot, use any DVD/usb linux .iso with EFI (for example: Debian 8.x) and before start installation check if is boot with EFI or legacy (enter with text mode and t

Re: Setting up UEFI boot

2016-05-04 Thread Stefan Monnier
> How can I set up a machine to boot in UEFI mode when the running kernel was > booted in legacy mode? AFAIK it goes something like this: - Use a GPT partition table, rather than MBR (you can usually convert from one to the other without reformatting, but that can require tricky fiddling, so i

Re: Setting up UEFI boot

2016-05-04 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > I downloaded the live no-desktop-environment image from cdimage.debian.org Well, cdimage.debian.org leads to many ISO images. Your description would match debian-live-8.4.0-amd64-standard.iso . wget http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current-live/amd64/iso-hybrid/debian-live-8.4.0-amd6

Re: Setting up UEFI boot

2016-05-04 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Wed, May 4, 2016, 4:21 PM Mark Fletcher wrote: > Thomas > > Thanks for your reply > I just realised I comitted the cardinal sin of top posting. Mea culpa, maxima mea culpa. Will try to make sure I do not do that again. >>

Re: Setting up UEFI boot

2016-05-04 Thread Mark Fletcher
Thomas Thanks for your reply. I downloaded the live no-desktop-environment image from cdimage.debian.org. I installed it using the instructions there (essentially dd if= of=/dev/sdc bs=4M ; sync) . I did this maybe 2 or 3 weeks back. Once I stopped being stupid and correctly put /dev/sdc instead

Re: Setting up UEFI boot

2016-05-03 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i cannot answer the question but wonder about an aspect of your report: Mark Fletcher wrote: > After figuring out how to disable secure boot and turn on support for legacy > boot modes, I was able to get the USB stick to boot into a non-DE Linux live > environment. The Debian ISOs for i386 a

Setting up UEFI boot

2016-05-03 Thread Mark Fletcher
Hello QUICK VERSION OF QUESTION: How can I set up a machine to boot in UEFI mode when the running kernel was booted in legacy mode? MORE DETAILED VERSION WITH BACKGROUND I recently bought an Asus mini pc which I intend to install Linux on and use as a firewall for my home network. The machine c