[opensuse] ideacentre Stick300
Hi, I am trying to install linux on to a ideacentre stick 300. I been reading they forum where people are getting Ubuntu install with the following ----- n fact, if You have the proper directory stucture for EFI boot on Your USB device (EFI/BOOT/bootia32.efi) it will enable You to boot from the USB after pessing ESC at boot time and selecting boot options. The same You can achieve via the 'Boot from file" option, when You select the USB device and find the EFI boot file manually. I've just managed to install Ubuntu Linux (15.10) to the Ideacenter Stick 300 device, so if You need I can provide some tips, how to do it :-) Amos ---- Should I use unebootin and choose the EFI-mode boot loader then ELILO? I guess I will need to use openSUSE 13.2 correct since leap there is no 32-bit version I am asking because I have found these steps ( sorry they are for ubuntu I am trying to change them for openSUSE ) . Do we have by change tablet mix? Broadly speaking, if you need to install Ubuntu (or any other Linux distribution) on a computer with a 32-bit EFI and no BIOS/CSM/legacy-mode boot support, the way to do it is: Use unetbootin or something similar to prepare an installation USB flash drive. (It's possible to get it to work with a CD-R, but this takes more work.) Choose an EFI-mode boot loader for Linux. I recommend ELILO, Fedora's patched GRUB Legacy, rEFInd, or gummiboot because they're relatively easy to set up manually. GRUB 2 is far too difficult to configure manually, and SYSLINUX is too new. Research your chosen boot loader's configuration file format and its needs in terms of kernel location. Check the original CD image to find its boot loader configuration. You need to know what options are being passed to the kernel by the boot loader. Add an EFI/BOOT directory to a FAT partition on the USB flash drive that now holds your Linux image. Ideally, this partition should be an ESP (that is, have a "boot flag" set in parted or have a type code of EF00 in gdisk if the disk uses GPT; or have a type code of 0xEF in fdisk if the disk uses MBR), but some ESPs can cope without that. If the disk doesn't have a FAT partition, you'll need to create one Copy your chosen boot loader's binary file (with a name that ends in .efi) to the EFI/BOOTdirectory on the USB flash drive, and rename it to bootia32.efi -- that is, it should be EFI/BOOT/bootia32.efi. Be sure to copy the 32-bit version of the boot loader! Install any support files that the boot loader needs, such as drivers, images, modules, and configuration files. In some cases (such as ELILO and gummiboot), you'll need to copy your kernel and initrd file to the FAT partition that holds the boot loader. Edit the configuration file(s) for your boot loader so that it can launch the kernel with the options you identified earlier by examining the BIOS-mode boot loader's configuration. Reboot to test the boot loader. With any luck it will work and you'll be able to install everything. I can't guarantee that Ubuntu will install a 32-bit EFI boot loader, though. If not, you'll need to boot an emergency system and set that up manually, too. You may also need to debug something, particularly if unetbootin (or whatever you use) doesn't set up the flash drive in the optimal way. Of course, this description is fairly vague about the critical detail of configuring the boot loader. This is because I haven't done it recently (although I have in the past), and the details vary depending on what boot loader you choose. -- Terror PUP a.k.a Chuck "PUP" Payne ----------------------------------------- Discover it! Enjoy it! Share it! openSUSE Linux. ----------------------------------------- openSUSE -- Terrorpup openSUSE Ambassador/openSUSE Member skype,twiiter,identica,friendfeed -- terrorpup freenode(irc) --terrorpup/lupinstein Register Linux Userid: 155363 Have you tried SUSE Studio? Need to create a Live CD, an app you want to package and distribute , or create your own linux distro. Give SUSE Studio a try. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 11:41 AM, Chuck Payne
Should I use unebootin and choose the EFI-mode boot loader then ELILO? I guess I will need to use openSUSE 13.2 correct since leap there is no 32-bit version
I expect 32 bit 13.2 DVD to come with 32 bit grub2 and so be bootable in this case. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
I will let you know, I am downloading now, will suse imagewriter to a
boot usb. I am very surprise that the Intel Atom is 32-bit base.
Thanks Andrei, I will keep everyone update.
On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 3:57 AM, Andrei Borzenkov
On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 11:41 AM, Chuck Payne
wrote: Should I use unebootin and choose the EFI-mode boot loader then ELILO? I guess I will need to use openSUSE 13.2 correct since leap there is no 32-bit version
I expect 32 bit 13.2 DVD to come with 32 bit grub2 and so be bootable in this case.
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