Boot up search for Tahr puppy files takes too long
Well, that is how I know grub2, on efi. At least we know now you have a plain legacy bios.nubc wrote:This Dell Precision 390 Core Two machine has a plain BIOS, so unless there is a very compelling reason, I wish you would drop references to EFI or UEFI. To my knowledge I have never owned a EFI or UEFI computer, so I don't have a clue what you're talking about.
Because of the size of your hard disc, I think - not sure if there is any other possibility - that you will need grub2 to be able to boot from your hard disc without CD required and with more control.
Grub2 on plain legacy bios, with mbr is out of my experience, sorry. I used grub4dos, which worked simple and good for me.
Boot from GPT hard disk in Legacy BIOS mode
https://www.aioboot.com/en/gpt-legacy/
Legacy BIOS Issues with GPT
http://www.rodsbooks.com/gdisk/bios.html
EDIT: I extracted AIO Boot on an ext3 GPT partition, but this action produced empty directories. The downloaded executable (AIO_Boot_Extractor.exe) is 42.3 MB in size; the extracted output directory is 488 kB in size. I'm extracting an extractor, how confusing. I really don't know what this executable is doing.
https://www.aioboot.com/en/gpt-legacy/
Legacy BIOS Issues with GPT
http://www.rodsbooks.com/gdisk/bios.html
EDIT: I extracted AIO Boot on an ext3 GPT partition, but this action produced empty directories. The downloaded executable (AIO_Boot_Extractor.exe) is 42.3 MB in size; the extracted output directory is 488 kB in size. I'm extracting an extractor, how confusing. I really don't know what this executable is doing.
As I understand it, you should run AIO_Boot_extractor.exe in windows. It is an installer package in windows.nubc wrote:Boot from GPT hard disk in Legacy BIOS mode
https://www.aioboot.com/en/gpt-legacy/
Legacy BIOS Issues with GPT
http://www.rodsbooks.com/gdisk/bios.html
EDIT: I extracted AIO Boot on an ext3 GPT partition, but this action produced empty directories. The downloaded executable (AIO_Boot_Extractor.exe) is 42.3 MB in size; the extracted output directory is 488 kB in size. I'm extracting an extractor, how confusing. I really don't know what this executable is doing.
Do you have windows on your machine? From the above, I understand you do not.
I am on thin ice here, but maybe this is something to read/try?
https://superuser.com/questions/903112/ ... on/1170352
Since the Vietnamese developer says AIO Boot works with Linux, perhaps I should extract in Windows, then move extracted files to Linux partition (or some specially created fat32 partition on the target hard drive). But if the executable is inserting code into the OS, that course of action is not feasible. If you check the step procedure, there's no indication that anything has actually been installed by running the AIO Boot Extractor executable, since user still has to create a small boot partition and run AIOCreator.exe after the initial extraction. Of course, I also have the advantage of seeing the extracted directories in making this assessment.