As an update, Ive tested devuan, debian, and ubuntu media on a newer laptop (2015) which seems to recognize the EFI partition and boot normally.
my desktop (2012) does not seem to understand 0xEF...I wish I knew why. On Sat, Sep 15, 2018 at 03:39:35AM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > j...@dev1ce.com wrote: > >greetings, > >the USB install media for netinst and live both create a dos partition > >table on dd, and cp. This will result in media that can only be booted > >legacy, as GPT is a requirement for EFI boot. > > Sorry, that's incorrect. It's perfectly valid in the UEFI spec for an > EFI System Partition to be a partition with type 0xEF in an > msdos-style partition table, particularly for removable media. Are you > having problems booting on a particular machines? > > -- > Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com > "Further comment on how I feel about IBM will appear once I've worked out > whether they're being malicious or incompetent. Capital letters are > forecast." > Matthew Garrett, http://www.livejournal.com/users/mjg59/30675.html