Re: Failure in gsetting up a UEFI USB Flash with Fedora 33??

["Eddie G. O'Connor Jr." <eoconnor25@xxxxxxxxx>]

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.

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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