If Windows is x64, is the BIOS/UEFI x64? On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 5:59 PM Daryl Kuchay <[email protected]> wrote:
> You are on the early side of uefi bios that support what we are trying to > do so please absorb two methods knowing one may work better than the other. > Secure boot, if enabled within bios is an absolute showstopper as far as I > know. This may be the source of the problem. > > I have no windows hardware to simulate on and I can not find enough > documentation that is readable to point of understanding slitaz hybrid iso > to exe file enough to support. However this is one of many methods to boot > slitaz. If you want to try this it will be non invasive and very temporary. > Everything is easy to set back. This method will make it so you can put usb > in and it will boot to slitaz and without usb it will boot to windows with > no intervention needed like selecting one or the other at boot. You can > eject medium after boot on slitaz making it so you could take usb out after > boot. If it was me I would prefer to test drive, noon invasively, before > committing to an installation. > > First step is disable secure boot. > > We will try efi first as any os that is uefi capable is meant to be boot > this way... If we disable uefi by enabling legacy boot in bios and go to > legacy boot you wont boot the os in gpt mode and it will boot in bios mode. > This may not work as developers intended. > > If you can get rufus fired up and set your partition type to gpt. The > incorrect setting is bios. This will tell rufus to put a 500mb partition on > the front of the volume that will hold the boot loader in efi executable > format. Use rufus in dd mode and with gpt and let it write. Usually > grub-efi makes a particuar structure here in that fat32 partition that we > will look at in a moment. Plug usb in to computer and reboot to bios. You > may have to enact this through settings. > > Using the below manual link start on page 91 and once you have your usb > made with rufus and you have it plugged in when accessing bios. Go to efi > boot order and entry screen and make new boot entry. First step is to title > it. If you clik on 3 dots for where to find file to boot to click it opens > primitive browser. Look at the addresses that are available. If you have > one hard drive there should be two. Once for a device on .../pci/... > and another on .../usb/..... > > Aim for the line with usb in the line. Go in to that line and look for a > boot folder and look for a bootx.xx. > > UEFI is a mess. If you have a 32 bit bios you may need to aim at a 32 bit > file. If you have a 64 bit bios aim for the BOOTX64.efi file. You may have > to use process of elimination and find the correct one the hard way but it > will be worth it. > > I understand why developers would try to make a way to jump over the uefi > mess of possibility but I am sorry that I just cant understand what the exe > is supposed to do. If you dont mind an experiment try this. If it fails you > can go back in and re-enable secure boot and delete the boot item and its > back to normal but I feel that you have one of 4 possibilities between two > “boot shims” aka the bootx32.efu or bootx64.efi and grubx32.efi and > grubx64.efi. And thats even if they used grub but there should be something > similar there in the efi partition. It may be within a DSO/boot/grubx64.efi > with dso or similar at top level. > > Very few standards at windows 8 time on efi partitons. Especially with > windows only vendors. If none of that worked you could go back in to bios > and enable legacy boot but I do not know if this is a good idea. I had an > early 2020 dell g7 a little less than a year ago and was first on internet > to install linux on to. Even ubuntu used wrong file in efi partition to > boot to. I had to manually make boot entry like instructed above and aim it > at the other efi file to choose from and it worked as designed. Until then > it would boot but install would fail at bootloader saying no efi partitions > were available. For the age of the hardware and what efi was like then > (mostly implemented by MS to make sure it was almost impossible to boot > anything else) I would expect to make another boot entry in bios. > > Your manual is here: > > > https://downloadcenter.samsung.com/content/UM/201412/20141209131203920/Win8_Manual_ENG.pdf > > Starting on page 91 > > Please write back if you get hung up on anything > > Sent from my iPad > > On May 11, 2020, at 8:10 PM, Phoenix Soul <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Samsung Win 8.1 Notebook 700T > > On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 3:03 PM Daryl Kuchay <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Gottcha, again... Im late to the list. May I ask the model of your >> computer? I think I know a way to get this to work. I just want to use your >> computer as example. AKA Get instructions correct. >> >> Sent from my iPad >> >> On May 11, 2020, at 4:59 PM, Phoenix Soul <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> >> I wish to boot up with USB. Basically you plug in USB, change BIOS, boot >> from USB. I have followed instructions provided in the slitaz exe. But the >> exe will not detect the USB. I know I can't burn the latest version of >> slitaz, as said in docs. But the darn exe will not find my 4GB USB2.0! >> >> > > -- > From, Warrick > > -- From, Warrick
