[arch-general] UEFI experience - recommendations needed.

[Mike Cloaked]

On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 12:01 PM, Paul Gideon Dann <pdgiddie at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Tuesday 08 Jan 2013 10:55:46 Mike Cloaked wrote:
> > If I can boot a freedos bootable usbkey under uefi and do the firmware
> > update flash that way it would be great!  I will try that as it will be
> > around the first thing I need to do before partitioning the drives and
> then
> > installing arch.... should be interesting!
>
> If I remember correctly, the issue was that the commands I needed to load
> the
> image from syslinux or grub weren't available from UEFI mode.  I can't
> quite
> remember what I did in the end, I'm afraid.  I think I ended up loading
> memdisk from grub2 using the "linux" command, instead of "linux16" (which
> wasn't available), and it just worked (surprisingly).  Switching to BIOS
> mode
> and booting from a USB stick would probably have been a quicker solution.
>
> It was also complicated by the issue that my firmware utility was too big
> for
> a normal FreeDOS image.  I ended up adding this to the Wiki for that:
>
>
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Flashing_BIOS_from_Linux#Images_that_are_too_large_for_a_floppy
>
> Paul
>

Thank you Paul - that is useful to know - though I don't think that in my
case the firmware image is all that big - but at least I know the way
forward if I have a problem with it.

-- 
mike c