I couldn't remember which key it was...so I found this...maybe one of
these might help?...
https://www.4winkey.com/windows-tips/how-to-access-enter-bios-on-dell.html
EGO II
On 9/9/21 8:35 AM, Michael D. Setzer II wrote:
> On 9 Sep 2021 at 8:21, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote:
>
> From: "Eddie G. O'Connor Jr." <eoconnor25(a)gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Failure in gsetting up a UEFI USB Flash with Fedora 33??
> To: "Michael D. Setzer II via users" <users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org>
> Date sent: Thu, 9 Sep 2021 08:21:23 -0400
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>> And you've ensured that UEFI has been turned off in the BIOS?...what about
>> switching from Compatibility to "ACHI"?....I've noticed that
sometimes? that simple
>> switch can work wonders....just a suggestion.
> From my understanding from one of the Users. They just
> got 140 of these new Dell 3080 machines, and they have
> no options for other than UEFI boot. The 3070 versions of
> the machines had the option to do regular boots. Could be
> a more complex process to enable it, but I'm sure he tried
> lots of things. Got a message about Lenova doing the
> same, but no specifics from that user. Went to Dell site,
> but there site seems to have no options unless you
> provide a code number from an actual machine??
> Right now, the user is having to physically remove drives
> from 3080 machine, and connect them to a 3070 machine
> to do image, and then can put the drive back??
>
>
>>
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>>
>> EGO II
>> On 9/9/21 8:04 AM, 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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