On 9 Sep 2021 at 13:18, Matthew Miller wrote:
Date sent: Thu, 9 Sep 2021 13:18:28 -0400
From: Matthew Miller
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To: "Michael D. Setzer II via users"
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Subject: Re: Failure in gsetting up a UEFI USB
Flash with Fedora 33??
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> On Thu, Sep 09, 2021 at 10:04:04PM +1000, 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?
>
> In the six things, have you tried Fedora Media Writer? This is the official
> thing we use and test, and it definitely successfully creates UEFI-bootable
> flash drives. It's not as full-featured as some of the other tools, but it's
> meant to do that one thing very successfully.
>
Problem is Fedora Media Writer is to create a USB with
Fedora Media on it. I'm NOT having an issue with
installing Fedora. I have built an open source project
using my Fedora machines since 2004, and have created
CD, and usb media, and even loaded the resulting kernel
and ramdisk.lzma from grub2 with no issue. It is now
getting a process that will do the same for a UEFI only
boot system on Dell and seems newer Lenova machine.
Have now had two things that show using grub2-install to
setup up, but that fails on my Fedora 33 with:
grub2-install: error: this utility cannot be used for EFI
platforms because it does not support UEFI Secure Boot.
I don't want to create a UEFI Secure boot, since I have no
way to pay for the expensive process of getting an official
signature for the kernels I build from kernel.org source
code. Kernels are about 10M in size, and the
ramdisk.lzma is about 30M with supporting file system
that then runs in Ram. In contrast the Fedora live Image
is about 2G in size, and doesn't include a number of
packages that are needed for the disk imaging.
>From my email from Clonzillia they use Unbunta or
Debian live-cd to support UEFI boot, and then add there
stuff on top of it. I've used Fedora since 2004, and its
worked well. So going from a 40M solution that works to
a solution that would require 2000M plus require internet
access to download the additional packages needed
seems Dumb.
Perhaps I'm missing something on why there is so
difficult an option to create a UEFI non-secure boot USB.
Like I mentioned the person can physically take the drive
out of the Dell 3080 machine, and connect it to a 3070
machine, and do the image process with no issue, and
then put the drive back in the 3080 machine??
All it takes to add it to the regular grub2 boot on Fedora
machines is the following lines in 40_custom file, and
copying the bz5x13.15 kernel file and the ramdisk.lzma
file into /boot.
menuentry G4L {
linux /bz5x13.15 root=/dev/ram0
initrd /ramdisk.lzma
}
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