<html><head></head><body><div class="ydp7ac3a89yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><div>Thanks Tim,<br><div><div>I had MS 7596 which promptly died on me while I tried to configure CMOS<br>to be able to install Debian.<br></div><div>Now with different MSI MB, I have finally managed to install as I am used to.<br><div><div>Phenom II X4 makes a nice change, but I have difficulty doing the way world <br>does things; basically throw money on the problem.</div><div><br>Technical documentation of tech savy is gobledy gook to me ;) .<br></div></div></div></div></div><div><div>I got Information systems strategy degree, but my sensitive conscience got better of me.<br>I am useless in corporate environment. I love it 6 feet under my ERM feet. PUN INTENDED ;).<br><div><div><br><div><div>What I would like to give someone money for, is configuring my SUN COBALT box as gateway<br><div>email server.550Mh would do this nicely.<br><div><br><span>CHEERS</span><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="ydp7ac3a89signature"><div>--<br>Miro<br></div>=============================================================<br>"I JUST WANNA DO GOD'S WILL!" -- Dr. Martin L. King Jr. <br>"AND IF YOU TOLERATE THIS, YOUR CHILDREN WILL BE NEXT" -- MSP <br>=============================================================</div></div>
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On Wednesday, 21 November 2018, 19:08:22 GMT, Tim Woodall via GLLUG <gllug@mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:
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<div><div dir="ltr">On Wed, 21 Nov 2018, Tim Woodall via GLLUG wrote:<br clear="none"><br clear="none">> On Tue, 20 Nov 2018, MJ via GLLUG wrote:<br clear="none">><br clear="none">>> Helo,<br clear="none">>> I 'ave a basic simple Q.<br clear="none">>> I have been scratching my head with latest Debian not giving me option to <br clear="none">>> install<br clear="none">>> on modern motherboard.<br clear="none">>> It simply gives no option for this type of file system for /boot/EFI<br clear="none">>> <br clear="none">> Debian does support uefi 'out of the box' but I don't know whether it<br clear="none">> has an installer (I have my own home-brew usb key for installing)<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> Can you boot the system at all (in which case it's 'just' getting the<br clear="none">> right files to the right place' or are you stuck getting it to boot at<br clear="none">> all?)<br clear="none">><br clear="none"><br clear="none">In /boot/efi/EFI/debian I have grubx64.efi. Which appears to be a copy<br clear="none">of /boot/grub/x86_64-efi/core.efi<br clear="none"><br clear="none">I don't know where that has come from but I would assume that it was<br clear="none">created when either grub-efi, grub-efi-amd64, grub-efi-amd64-bin or<br clear="none">efibootmgr were installed.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">I probably used efibootmgr to setup the EFI configuration but I don't<br clear="none">recall exactly what I did.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">And I do remember that the EFI partition has to be of type "EFI System"<br clear="none">for my laptop to boot.<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">I also have a EFI/BOOT/bootx64.efi and EFI/BOOT/grub.cfg - which I<br clear="none">recall were how I got the system to boot originally before I got the<br clear="none">version above installed.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Created like this:<br clear="none">grub-mkimage -o bootx64.efi -p /grub -O x86_64-efi \<br clear="none"> fat iso9660 part_gpt part_msdos \<br clear="none"> normal boot echo linux configfile loopback chain \<br clear="none"> efifwsetup efi_gop efi_uga \<br clear="none"> ls search search_label search_fs_uuid search_fs_file \<br clear="none"> gfxterm gfxterm_background gfxterm_menu test all_video loadenv \<br clear="none"> exfat ext2 ntfs btrfs hfsplus udf<br clear="none"><br clear="none">(I wish now I'd made better notes when I did this - unfortunately, as is<br clear="none">so often the case, you only do these things once and go down a lot of<br clear="none">rabbit holes before you find wonderland so the notes you do make often<br clear="none">don't make sense when you come back to them...)<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Tim.<div class="yqt3131550191" id="yqtfd61893"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">-- <br clear="none">GLLUG mailing list<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:GLLUG@mailman.lug.org.uk" href="mailto:GLLUG@mailman.lug.org.uk">GLLUG@mailman.lug.org.uk</a><br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/gllug" target="_blank">https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/gllug</a></div></div></div>
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