[arch-general] Difficulty installing UEFI

[Damjan Georgievski]

On Tue, 16 Nov 2021 at 05:05, Paul M. Foster <paulf at quillandmouse.com> wrote:
>
> 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?

According to this screenshot, there is UEFI support
https://lv.wayzata-homestead-harvest.com/130167-spectre-meltdown-lenovo-m800-bios-VTNDUO-article


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damjan