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On 07/02/2018 01:36 PM, Mick wrote: |
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> On Monday, 2 July 2018 19:20:29 BST Corbin Bird wrote: |
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>> On 07/01/2018 03:04 PM, Mick wrote: |
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>>> What do you mean "would not load"? From the live ISO? |
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>>> I had no such problem here on a bare metal install (no Windows) with |
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>>> sysrescuecd. You have to make sure the sysrescuecd is booting in UEFI |
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>>> mode |
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>>> before you proceed with the installation. |
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>> ( Clarification ) The UEFI implementation installed on my MB would not |
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>> load the VFAT driver. |
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> What error messages, indications, behaviour do you get and at what stage? |
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> Well, the Gentoo Live-CD may not be the best image to boot your hardware with. |
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> I'd give systemrescuecd a spin, it has never failed me so far, although a few |
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> years ago I had to perform some tricks to get it to boot into UEFI mode. |
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Answers to questions : |
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The VFAT driver in question is built-in to UEFI. |
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It is not the Linux kernel module you may be thinking of. |
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UEFI was a long list of built-in drivers. |
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Old BIOS based systems had a 1 or 2 Megabyte EPROM in use for the BIOS. |
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UEFI has 32, 64, or 128 Megabyte EPROMs on the motherboard == driver |
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storage space. |
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Remember DOS and all those drivers that had to be setup, just to get |
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basic hardware working? |
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UEFI is the equivalent of all those drivers being packaged into the |
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EPROM, with auto-config enabled. |
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The EFI Shell has a specific command that will "print-to-screen" all |
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loaded UEFI drivers. |
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That command was showing only the NTFS filesystem driver loading. |
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After Windows was installed on a second drive, the UEFI VFAT driver |
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started loading. |
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( the Windows Boot Loader had installed itself into the UEFI ) |
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My MB has the latest firmware from the factory. |
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Linux has to be run with "efi=old_map" appended to the kernel parameters. |
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( Windows 8.1 UEFI memory map ) |
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I was using the standard Gentoo install ISO, Minimal Installation CD. |
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Link : https://www.gentoo.org/downloads/ |
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Memory is fuzzy ... I think I did try it in UEFI mode. |
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Next time I will try the systemrescuecd in UEFI mode instead. |
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Corbin |
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