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Booting UEFI/EFI Computers - What Works, What Doesn't
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mcewanw
Joined: 16 Aug 2007 Posts: 3199 |
That's interesting. Never thought of using Qemu to test UEFI (would certainly be interested to try Secure Boot too). William |
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smokey01
 Joined: 30 Dec 2006 Posts: 2770 Location: South Australia :-( |
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. TIA _________________ Software <-> Distros <-> Tips <-> Newsletters |
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gcmartin
Joined: 14 Oct 2005 Posts: 6730 Location: Earth |
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
For Non-EFI (BIOS) VM Guests this works
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jamesbond
Joined: 26 Feb 2007 Posts: 3161 Location: The Blue Marble |
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. _________________ Fatdog64, Slacko and Puppeee user. Puppy user since 2.13. Contributed Fatdog64 packages thread. |
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jamesbond
Joined: 26 Feb 2007 Posts: 3161 Location: The Blue Marble |
Puppylinux blog has an interesting entry about UEFI: http://blog.puppylinux.com/?viewDetailed=00009 _________________ Fatdog64, Slacko and Puppeee user. Puppy user since 2.13. Contributed Fatdog64 packages thread. |
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gcmartin
Joined: 14 Oct 2005 Posts: 6730 Location: Earth |
Hi @JamesBond. Should "step 6" read?
Thanks for the heads-up. Cheers! _________________ Get ACTIVE Create Circles; Do those good things which benefit people's needs! We are all related ... Its time to show that we know this! 3 Different Puppy Search Engines or use DogPile |
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cimarron
 Joined: 30 May 2013 Posts: 293 |
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: 3161 Location: The Blue Marble |
My hope is that the post will bring an avalanche of UEFI-enabled Puppies in near future. _________________ Fatdog64, Slacko and Puppeee user. Puppy user since 2.13. Contributed Fatdog64 packages thread. |
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jamesbond
Joined: 26 Feb 2007 Posts: 3161 Location: The Blue Marble |
Slacko64 with UEFI support now testing: http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=106337 _________________ Fatdog64, Slacko and Puppeee user. Puppy user since 2.13. Contributed Fatdog64 packages thread. |
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01micko
 Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 8680 Location: qld |
Originally was 64 only but 32 bit is now also available. _________________ Puppy Linux Blog - contact me for access |
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zakjoh
Joined: 17 Oct 2015 Posts: 22 |
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 |
I wish. _________________ .... |
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LateAdopter
Joined: 27 May 2011 Posts: 302 Location: Reading UK |
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 |
Without checking further into what steve actually does this quote sounds interesting to me? Could be worth a look!
Read more: http://www.easy2boot.com/uefi-grub2-ptn2/
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Insomniacno1
 Joined: 24 Jul 2009 Posts: 188 |
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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