On 03.11.2020 15:15, u34@net9.ga wrote:
I have 2 options for that during POST. Press F2 or Del to go into BIOS configuration and see and reorder the boot devices. This list is a classical BIOS boot device list. The other option is press F12 and
Don't F2, or Del show more complex screens, other than just reorder boot devices?
Yes of course. I just didn't want to describe my whole BIOS settings menu, because I thought your question was aimed the boot device selection. There is some unrelated stuff, but like with most consumer laptops it is very rudimentary and narrow, like disable USB or disable Camera or disable Micorphone or ASF configuration...
Perhaps the problem is that itthe dirmware is looking for an ESP, which can not be found?
Shouldn't the ESP be on the Live medium? I never had one on my hard drive, which is a plain MBR partitioned one with no fancy firmware loading stuff... plain old BIOS GRUB setup. Always been.
I came to the conclusion, that my hardware is faulty. Somehow it is capable to start the systemd-boot loader but not the actual UEFI image. And all while not mentioning any EFI capabilities in BIOS settings.
Well, if it boots systemd-boot, have you tried to configure systemd-boot? Are you aware to the fact that there used to be 32 bits variant of the efi firmware?
What do you mean by configure? It is the unchanged archlinux-2020.11.01-x86_64.iso I dd'ed on a stick.
Just out of curiosit, does anyone know a way to "ask" the hardware about EFI capabilities, without actually booting through EFI?
I think that if you can start the installation, you might query hardware capabilities. I am referring to https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Unified_Extensible_Firmware_Interface#C... .
I am aware of /sys/firmware/efi, but it only shows up when you actually boot through the EFI, which, as stated, I was never able to. I worked around the problem, so I am good for now. If someone is interested in investigating the problem with that dated hardware I am more than willing to do whatever you need for that. Just mail directly, no need to spam the list any further.