On 9 Sep 2021 at 10:37, John Mellor wrote:
From: John Mellor <john.mellor(a)gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Failure in gsetting up a UEFI USB Flash with Fedora 33??
To: users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
Date sent: Thu, 9 Sep 2021 10:37:11 -0400
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You do not need to do anything fancy at all with a Fedora USB install media.
Fedora comes with both UEFI and legacy boot mechanisms, so it just works on all
machines. Instead, you have a BIOS setting problem, that is preventing you from
seeing the USB key. Fix that, and everything should just work.
The problem is not with the Fedora installation, since it
does have the UEFI boot setup. Trying to boot from a
CD/USB that has a kernel built from
kernel.org source
code, and load the ramdisk.lzma file system to run the
package from. Works fine with syslinux, regular grub2,
and grub4dos boot. Just these new Dell machines have
NO BIOS or Legacy options to boot, so will only boot from
CD or USB that is UEFI setup.
I have one Dell machine, but it is an older one, and it has
regular boot options for me with no problem, but this
user has new Dell machines, that seem to have removed
all options other than UEFI boot.
Got a reply from one user on a setup, but just tried it, and
get he same failure message when trying to setup the efi
on the usb. So, don't know if it worked with older version
of the program, but is failing with the latest??
grub2-install: error: this utility cannot be used for EFI
platforms because it does not support UEFI Secure Boot.
On 2021-09-09 8:04 a.m., Michael D. Setzer II via users wrote:
I've found 6 web sites so far that had instructions on
setting up a UEFI USB flash to boot, but all have failed.
Some actually create a UEFI Flash that my test usb is
seen as being a UEFI flash, but the boot fails?
The last one I fully documented the steps from page, but
the resulting flash doesn't even show up as an UEFI
Flash. Probable due to the failure of the grub2-install
option??
grub2-install: error: this utility cannot be used for EFI
platforms because it does not support UEFI Secure Boot.
So, it seems it worked on some system before, but fails
with Fedora 33 at least?? Don't want to create a UEFI
Secure Boot, but just a UEFI Boot??
#https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-create-multiboot-usb-with-linux
parted -s /dev/sdb mklabel msdos
parted -s /dev/sdb mkpart primary 1MiB 551Mib
parted -s /dev/sdb set 1 esp on
parted -s /dev/sdb set 1 boot on
mkfs.fat -F32 /dev/sdb1
parted -s /dev/sdb mkpart primary 551Mib 100%
mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdb2
mkdir /media/{efi,data}
mount /dev/sdb1 /media/efi
mount /dev/sdb2 /media/data
# Installing legacy grub2
grub2-install \
--target=i386-pc \
--recheck \
--boot-directory="/media/data/boot" /dev/sdb
# Installing grub for efi
grub2-install \
--target=x86_64-efi \
--recheck \
--force \
--removable \
--efi-directory="/media/efi" \
--boot-directory="/media/data/boot"
## grub2-install: error: this utility cannot be used for EFI
platforms because it does not support UEFI Secure Boot.
mkdir /media/data/boot/iso
chown 1000:1000 /media/data/boot/iso
cd /media/data/boot/iso/
cp /home/msetzerii/g4l0.60alpha/g4l-v0.60.iso .
cd /media/data/boot/grub2
#create grub.cfg with these lines.
#menuentry "G4L" {
# isofile="/boot/iso/g4l-v0.60.iso"
# loopback loop "${isofile}"
# linux (loop)/isolinux/bz5x13.14 iso-scan/filename="${isofile}"
root=/dev/ram0
# initrd (loop)/isolinux/ramdisk.lzma
#}
Have just got had email chat with Clonezilla developer to see
what they have done. Seems they gave up on trying to make a
UEFI boot, and have created a live-cd boot of a distro to get
around issue.
Seems going from boot loaders link syslinux, grub4dos, and
regular grub2 with a 10M kernel and 30M ramdisk.
With Fedora, it would require the 2G live CD image, and then the
downloading of a number of packages that are not included on
the live-cd. So, 40M to 2000+M and a bunch of steps.
Does anyone know of a process to make a UEFI USB Boot that
actual works using Fedora??
Very Frustrated...
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