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mcewanw
Joined: 16 Aug 2007 Posts: 3194 Location: New Zealand
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Posted: Thu 31 Mar 2016, 07:30 Post subject:
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jamesbond wrote: | No new machines needed. "UEFI" is just firmware, just like BIOS is. Qemu can support both regular BIOS firmware and UEFI firmware. |
That's interesting. Never thought of using Qemu to test UEFI (would certainly be interested to try Secure Boot too).
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smokey01

Joined: 30 Dec 2006 Posts: 2682 Location: South Australia
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Posted: Thu 31 Mar 2016, 17:03 Post subject:
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jamesbond how do you release the mouse Grab bollocks. If I press Ctrl+Alt+G it only releases it until I click on the desktop then I have to repeat the procedure.
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gcmartin
Joined: 14 Oct 2005 Posts: 6730 Location: Earth
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Posted: Thu 31 Mar 2016, 19:54 Post subject:
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I have reported this (several times) before and I will report again: Running FATDOG as the PC's distro, if anyone starts a Virtual Machine (VM) running the FATDOG distro, you will notice that the distro runs much faster than the main FD7.
Try it yourself for observation using the command that @JamesBond shows earlier; namely
Code: | qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -m 1024 -bios uefi-bios.bin -cdrom -vga cirrus path/to/your/FD7.iso | Of course, you can boot any compliant ISO not just FD7.
For Non-EFI (BIOS) VM Guests this works
Code: | qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -m 1024 -cdrom -vga cirrus path/to/your/FD7.iso | Cheers
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jamesbond
Joined: 26 Feb 2007 Posts: 3146 Location: The Blue Marble
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Posted: Fri 01 Apr 2016, 05:15 Post subject:
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smokey01 wrote: | jamesbond how do you release the mouse Grab bollocks. If I press Ctrl+Alt+G it only releases it until I click on the desktop then I have to repeat the procedure. |
You can't. But you can simplify that if you add the "-sdl" parameter - then you only need to press Ctrl+Alt to release the grab.
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jamesbond
Joined: 26 Feb 2007 Posts: 3146 Location: The Blue Marble
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Posted: Fri 01 Apr 2016, 06:26 Post subject:
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Puppylinux blog has an interesting entry about UEFI: http://blog.puppylinux.com/?viewDetailed=00009
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gcmartin
Joined: 14 Oct 2005 Posts: 6730 Location: Earth
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Posted: Fri 01 Apr 2016, 16:28 Post subject:
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Hi @JamesBond. Should "step 6" read?
The process shows, there, is clear, IMHO.
Thanks for the heads-up.
Cheers!
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cimarron

Joined: 30 May 2013 Posts: 293
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Posted: Fri 01 Apr 2016, 19:17 Post subject:
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Thanks, jamesbond. It's nice that your EFI bootloader solution can be simply added to a standard BIOS puppy USB stick so it will boot on BIOS or UEFI. Adding EFI doesn't change the stick's MBR, so it still boots normally on a BIOS computer.
It works for me booting Precise puppy on a Dell Optiplex 3020 with UEFI.
For my more complicated multiboot USB stick with a syslinux bootloader, I added the rEFInd bootloader that provides a menu to select a legacy bootloader (described here). That allows using the existing syslinux multiboot menu on a EFI computer, as long as it has CSM enabled. I couldn't manage figuring out how to convert the complicated syslinux.cfg items to grub.cfg.
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jamesbond
Joined: 26 Feb 2007 Posts: 3146 Location: The Blue Marble
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Posted: Sat 02 Apr 2016, 02:38 Post subject:
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cimarron wrote: | Thanks, jamesbond. It's nice that your EFI bootloader solution can be simply added to a standard BIOS puppy USB stick so it will boot on BIOS or UEFI. Adding EFI doesn't change the stick's MBR, so it still boots normally on a BIOS computer. | Yes, thank you for mentioning that: a point I forgot to say, that aside from being UEFI simple, it will not affect / change existing solutions for BIOS systems too.
Quote: | It works for me booting Precise puppy on a Dell Optiplex 3020 with UEFI. | Thank you for the confirmation.
Quote: | For my more complicated multiboot USB stick with a syslinux bootloader, I added the rEFInd bootloader that provides a menu to select a legacy bootloader (described here). That allows using the existing syslinux multiboot menu on a EFI computer, as long as it has CSM enabled. I couldn't manage figuring out how to convert the complicated syslinux.cfg items to grub.cfg. | rEFInd is nice. And yes Fatdog also uses rEFInd too. The blog post is a start, once people are familiar with UEFI boot process, they can proceed to use other, more featured bootloaders like rEFInd (or any other combination). I'm not sure if grub2 EFI can chainload to legacy bootloader, I never tested that because the Qemu UEFI BIOS doesn't have CSM.
My hope is that the post will bring an avalanche of UEFI-enabled Puppies in near future.
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jamesbond
Joined: 26 Feb 2007 Posts: 3146 Location: The Blue Marble
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Posted: Mon 04 Apr 2016, 08:02 Post subject:
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Slacko64 with UEFI support now testing: http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=106337
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01micko

Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 8670 Location: qld
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Posted: Tue 05 Apr 2016, 04:46 Post subject:
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Originally was 64 only but 32 bit is now also available.
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zakjoh
Joined: 17 Oct 2015 Posts: 22
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Posted: Tue 05 Apr 2016, 06:25 Post subject:
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Are there any modern boards still being manufactured that don't use UEFI ??
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bark_bark_bark
Joined: 05 Jun 2012 Posts: 1935 Location: Wisconsin USA
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Posted: Tue 05 Apr 2016, 07:10 Post subject:
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zakjoh wrote: | Are there any modern boards still being manufactured that don't use UEFI ?? |
I wish.
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LateAdopter
Joined: 27 May 2011 Posts: 285 Location: Reading UK
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Posted: Tue 05 Apr 2016, 08:21 Post subject:
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zakjoh wrote: | Are there any modern boards still being manufactured that don't use UEFI ?? |
I think that generic motherboards with a BIOS from Phoenix Technologies (American Megatrends or Award) will work in either mode. The issue here is: how to use Puppy without reformatting a drive that is already using UEFI, and also the case of a proprietary BIOS in some laptops.
In principle an IBM BIOS should be able to boot an MBR partition or a GPT partition. The same applies to a UEFI BIOS. In practice the BIOS setup screen doesn't give you the option
With my ASRock Intel Braswell N3150 motherboard, that I bought in November, I partitioned the new SSD with MBR and there was no need to mess about with UEFI and it worked exactly like motherboards have for decades.
The only noticeable difference comes with SATA. There isn't the same fixed relationship between drive letter and connectors that there used to be with IDE drives.
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Scooby
Joined: 03 Mar 2012 Posts: 601
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Posted: Sun 15 May 2016, 06:47 Post subject:
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Without checking further into what steve actually does this quote sounds interesting to me?
Could be worth a look!
rmprep wrote: | You may find that some ISOs that do not contain UEFI
boot files (\EFI\boot\bootx64.efi and bootia32.efi) will still boot via the
grub2 menu system!
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Read more: http://www.easy2boot.com/uefi-grub2-ptn2/
rmprep wrote: | By adding a special FAT32 .imgPTN partition image file
containg grub2 to the E2B USB drive, it is possible to UEFI-boot directly from
many linux ISOs and .EFI boot files (such as Memtest and KonBoot EFI files)
all from one menu system (no need to reboot and load a different .imgPTN
file each time!).
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Insomniacno1

Joined: 24 Jul 2009 Posts: 188
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Hi, instead of going into details again of what works, you can read all about it in my thread - where I have tried to get allot of different puppies to work on my x86 Tablet with UEFI - there are also the solution to booting and KMS settings to get to the desktop.
I have also listed which puppies that didn't work.
I spent several months on trying to get this to work and I'm not done yet.
Maybe you can contribute:)
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=108295
Hope that helps:)
JBJ
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