On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 2:59 PM, Pascal Hambourg <pas...@plouf.fr.eu.org> wrote:
> Le 11/05/2018 à 20:33, Kent West a écrit : > >> >> I learned that EFI boot drives need to have a GPT partition table. On a >> > > This is not correct. The UEFI specification supports boot from a drive > with an MSDOS partition table. Otherwise why would there be an "EFI system > partition" type identifier (0xef) for MSDOS partition tables ? The Debian > installer hybrid image has an MSDOS partition table. (It also has Apple and > GPT partition tables, but they are bogus) That's good to know. I guess my source material ( https://www.happyassassin.net/2014/01/25/uefi-boot-how-does-that-actually-work-then/) is wrong. Or I misunderstood it. > > lark, I ran "gparted --list", and discovered that the flash drive had a >> "mac" partition table. >> >> Wha-a-ah-h-h?? >> > > It is part of the image. > > Okay. So I ran gparted, selected the drive, and created a new "GPT" >> partition table, then repeated all my former steps, and bang! Success! >> > > Copying the image again overwrote the GPT partition table and anything > else you may have written to the stick. So it does not explain the success. > You may have done something wrong the first time. > Possibly. With my first attempt, the "cp" happened very quickly. I didn't do a "sync", but I did use Cinnamon's system-tray thingie to eject the USB drive before unplugging it. With the second attempt, the "cp" took minutes (long enough I was beginning to think it had hung). At any rate, I have a working system (except for wirelessly connecting to a secured network (unsecured works fine)), so I'm happy. Thanks! -- Kent West <")))>< Westing Peacefully - http://kentwest.blogspot.com
