Have you tried arch with systemd-boot instead of grub2? (I always use systemd-boot since a while😉) Greets Marcel Gesendet von meinem Smartphone Am 21.12.2017 09:28 schrieb <news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > Le 2017-12-20 15:45, David Rosenstrauch a écrit : > >> On 2017-12-20 3:00 am, David C. Rankin wrote: >> >>> I have struggled with this issue and Arch for a year. The problem is >>> grub2 on >>> Arch fails to write anything to bytes 0x04 - 0x63 of the mbr, while other >>> distros don't seem to have that problem. >>> >> >> >> More of a workaround than a solution, but I stopped using grub >> altogether once they upgraded to grub2. (The complexity of the grub2 >> config file as compared to the simplicity of the grub-legacy menu.lst >> file is what eventually turned me away.) I've started using syslinux >> in recent years, and have been quite happy with it. >> >> HTH, >> >> DR >> > > Hello everyone, > > I have good news ... sort of. After a full reset (OS+BIOS) here is the > result : > [1] Archlinux : not able to boot. > [2] Obarun : not able to boot. Yet this distro uses syslinux, not grub... > [3] OpenSuze : not able to boot. David : maybe a difference between Leap > 42.2 and 42.3 ? > [4] Debian : not able to boot. I tried Debian and Subgraph. > [5] Ubuntu : booting and functionnal (as functionnal as Ubuntu can be). > > I'll install Ubuntu and see what I can install from there. Archlinux with > syslinux I guess. Note : all these USB stick were made with dd. Even Ubuntu > was unable to boot with an Easy2Boot stick with imgPTN image and so one. > > Tom >
