[arch-general] Difficulty installing UEFI

Paul M. Foster paulf at quillandmouse.com
Tue Nov 16 04:05:40 UTC 2021


On 11/15/21 9:18 PM, Damjan Georgievski wrote:
>> Well, I created this USB stick with dd. I used the basic ISO available
>> on the Arch download mirrors. I'm assuming from what you say that a
>> stick built from dd wouldn't satisfy what you're saying. If that's the
>> case, how do you prepare a USB stick as a UEFI device, and then how
>> would you then copy the ISO to it properly?
> dd of the official .iso should be fine
>
> make sure to disable legacy booting in BIOS (also CSM disabled).
>
>
I can't find a setting for this in the BIOS. There is no mention of 
UEFI, and I suspect that the BIOS assumed all boots were MBR. Which is 
what drove my original question: should I give up on trying to work with 
this old motherboard? Or is there some workaround?

Paul




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