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From: "Walter Dnes" <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Install from USB stick; here's how
Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2013 16:21:36 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130906202136.GA5443@waltdnes.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <l08ag0$511$1@ger.gmane.org>

On Wed, Sep 04, 2013 at 09:59:28PM +0000, Grant Edwards wrote

> Do the instructions at http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/LiveUSB/HOWTO work
> with UEFI machines where the simple 'dd' method doesn't?

  I don't have a UEFI boot machine, so I don't know.

> One datapoint: my motherboard has UEFI bios, and simply dd'ing the
> minimal install .iso to a flash drive worked fine.  When I boot up
> with the USB drive, the BIOS boot menu shows two entries for the USB
> drive, the first one always worked, so I never tried the second one...

  Are you booting in UEFI mode or "legacy mode"?

-- 
Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>
I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications


  reply	other threads:[~2013-09-06 20:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-01-07  3:05 [gentoo-user] Install from USB stick; here's how Walter Dnes
2013-01-07 13:08 ` Bruce Hill
2013-09-03 17:05 ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2013-09-03 20:33   ` Walter Dnes
2013-09-03 21:16     ` Grant Edwards
2013-09-03 20:50   ` Alan McKinnon
2013-09-03 21:19     ` Grant Edwards
2013-09-03 21:25       ` Alan McKinnon
2013-09-03 22:13         ` Grant Edwards
2013-09-04  5:00           ` Walter Dnes
2013-09-04 14:07             ` Grant Edwards
2013-09-04  8:08           ` Alan McKinnon
2013-09-04  9:17   ` thegeezer
2013-09-04 19:41   ` Walter Dnes
2013-09-04 21:59     ` Grant Edwards
2013-09-06 20:21       ` Walter Dnes [this message]
2013-09-07 12:31         ` Grant Edwards
2013-09-07 23:57           ` Walter Dnes

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