Juergen Werner via arch-general <arch-general@archlinux.org> wrote:
On 03/11/2020 10.23, u34@net9.ga wrote:> Have you entered the firmware configuration, or the bios configuration,
whatever that is, to see its options?
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?
select a boot device, without the need to permanently reorder stuff. This is very plain and leaves not much room for interpretation and I tried both.
Since there is no (known) option to force the boot mode of the flash drive, I went with ??scars suggestion and created a BIOS-GRUB flash drive to load the ISO as loop device, which went really smooth. I used that method before, when I originally installed Arch on it, but just for the reason that I could have multiple ISOs on a stick without reflashing all the time. That is probably the reason, why I never ran into this problem with the Arch ISO.
Perhaps the problem is that itthe dirmware is looking for an ESP, which can not be found?
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?
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... . -- u34