On 9 Sep 2021 at 9:15, Tom Horsley wrote: Date sent: Thu, 9 Sep 2021 09:15:30 -0400 From: Tom Horsley <horsley1953@xxxxxxxxx> To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Failure in gsetting up a UEFI USB Flash with Fedora 33?? Send reply to: Community support for Fedora users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > On Thu, 09 Sep 2021 22:04:04 +1000 > Michael D. Setzer II via users wrote: > > > Does anyone know of a process to make a UEFI USB Boot that > > actual works using Fedora?? > > I've always used: > > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Multiboot_USB_drive > > I created a big utility USB stick with it than can boot the > giant collection of ISO images I put on the stick. It can boot > either "normal" MSDOS or UEFI, but I've found a lot of computers > that don't like one or the other for some reason. I just boot > whichever version I can get to work. Here's my notes for setting up > the initial stick: > > If starting from scratch, use gparted to erase all partitions > from the usb stick. > > Create a 4 GB fat32 partition labeled BOOTUSB > > Create an ext4 partition labeled DATAUSB in remainder of space. > > Using /dev/sdc as the example name of the usb stick device, run these > commands to install grub on the BOOTUSB partition (taken from > the web page at https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Multiboot_USB_drive). > > mount /dev/sdc1 /mnt > mkdir /mnt/boot > grub2-install --target=i386-pc --recheck --boot-directory=/mnt/boot /dev/sdc > grub2-install --target x86_64-efi --removable --boot-directory=/mnt/boot --efi-directory=/mnt At that step I end up getting the error message? grub2-install: error: this utility cannot be used for EFI platforms because it does not support UEFI Secure Boot. Don't know if something change in the grub2-install that causes it to fail?? Then not sure if get that to work, what would be the exact format for the grub.cfg and where would be the spot to put the kernel and ramdisk.lzma files? Thanks for the input. > > Now copy in the grub.cfg file (gets very specific to my case after > this). > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
