On Sun, Jul 10, 2016 at 4:26 AM, Jan Engelhardt
On Saturday 2016-07-09 20:17, Chris Murphy wrote:
On Sat, Jul 9, 2016 at 10:30 AM, Ken Schneider - Factory
wrote: I was given an ASUS X205t notebook and I'm trying to install TW but having no success. There's very little in the way of bios settings. I have turned of UEFI and have no way of turning on CSM support.
Make sure the firmware is up to date. Do not disable UEFI, that's the same thing as enabling CSM. CSM is for legacy OS's, Tumbleweed is not a legacy OS.
Yeah but UEFIs can be very picky about the boot medium.
I don't know what that means.
Without CSM for example, netbooting pxelinux.0 is no longer possible.
OK? pxelinux.0 is a BIOS bootloader, not a UEFI OSloader. The proper solution is use a UEFI OSLoader for PXE booting, not to insert another layer to compensate for using arguably the wrong thing in the first place. http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php?title=PXELINUX#UEFI
Probably also rejects non-GPT partition tables.
The spec requires firmware to support GPT, MBR, the various ISO 9660, El Torito, and UDF partition formats.
And partition tables without all the EFI heads.
While it's semi-sane for the firmware to ignore partitions which aren't EFI system partitions, in practice they don't tend to to this, in particular for removable media.
Which begs the question - does the aforementioned manually-created USB image even have a GPT one, or is that just the usual MSDOS+ElTorito hybrid?
It is a good question. "SUSE Studio ImageWriter compiled for windows, but this is not maintained anymore." https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Create_a_Live_USB_stick_using_Windows So I'm uncertain if it can produce a USB stick correctly for UEFI at all. Using dd to a USB stick is reliable, the net installer ISO is clearly an El Torito compliant ISO 9660 image, and UEFI will use it. But I don't know what official way of creating media on Windows exists right now on openSUSE. -- Chris Murphy -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org