golinux wrote:It might boot UEFI though.
couldn't resist . . .
I don't get it . . .
I was poking at your typo.
]]>On my machines, I always disable 'Secure Boot' before installing a Linux Distro. Is it the reason why it failed for you?
No, I don't have secure boot (actually one of them has coreboot) and I had installed other Linux distros on them previously without any problems.
]]>It might boot UEFI though.
couldn't resist . . .
I don't get it, but now having also tried the desktop live I have the same problem so I'll have to open a new thread, possibly I have an unrelated issue
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]]>Indeed!
You can delete everything in /isolinux but isolinux.cfg (and even everything in isolinux.cfg) in order to get grub's menu.
Yeah, grub looks for isolinux.cfg just to find the right location. It doesn't care what's inside it. I forgot about that.
]]>You can delete everything in /isolinux but isolinux.cfg (and even everything in isolinux.cfg) in order to get grub's menu.
]]>This one boots uefi:
It does. Thank you very much.
Sounds like you didn't make a grub.cfg.
I actually did.
For test purposes, I just changed the grub.cfg of your image, xorriso-ed it and this new iso image still boots, so it seems that creating the iso wasn't my problem.
I thought that the isolinux directory is only for non-UEFI legacy booting, but when deleting it, grub ends up in its command line. There is one reference to isolinux in grub's boot loader (/isolinux/isolinux.cfg).
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8655c89c68a454458e3d9ea1c2e0b266315f72a2f81f6e043309a4d334d0a893 devuan_beowulf_3.0.0_amd64_uefi_minimal-live.iso
Edit: I didn't modify the grub menu, so it does not have the same choices as the normal minimal-live. The first choice is the same.
Sounds like you didn't make a grub.cfg.
]]>Mount the iso, rsync copy it to a different directory, add the efi files, run xorriso. I don't think it's less pain in the ass to do it that way. Quite the opposite.
Also easier than explaining how to make an iso is to make one, which I am doing right now. I'll let you know if it boots and where you can download it.
]]>The minimal-live is not set up to boot uefi.
That's what I figured by now.
If you have another linux set up on the machine, you can boot the minimal-live on usb from grub command-line.
Thanks for the hint, but this is a pain in the ass.
Is there a script or documentation on how to create an iso image? I can mount iso9660 on a different machine and could take the boot and efi directory of the desktop-live and the live directory of the minimal-live to create a minimal-live that boots with uefi.
I have to edit boot/grub/grub.cfg, of course. (And I don't know about efiboot.img.)
]]>If you want this to be the main or only linux, you would need to install grub-efi-amd64 before you run refractainstaller.
If you don't have another linux to boot this, it might be possible to do it with two usb sticks - one with desktop-live to get to a grub command line and one with the minimal live. I didn't try that.
Press c at grub boot menu to get to command prompt and enter the following commands.
set root=(hd0) # Your motherboard might call it hd1. Tab-complete will help you.
linux /live/vmlinuz boot=live username=devuan
initrd /live/initrd.img
boot
What is the output of sudo wipefs /dev/sdX
sdX being your usb drive etc
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