A bit more patching, this time using the Windows YUMI application to offer both i486 and x86_64 Arch Linux flavours of Porteus on a same menu.
It's just a matter of pointers i guess, so intead of patching for Porteus perhaps do it once-for-all by targetting YUMI instead, which i found out to be most friendly except on my UEFI-tablet, so far...
In principle 1 single flash drive can fit them all and i was most pleased to observe that HardInfo v0.6 is actually 'System Profiler and Benchmark', meaning soon i may be able to start making comparisons.
So i probably need to thank the author of Arch Linux Porteus as well. Too bad i had to trade the XZM repository in exchange, though it seems the AppImage format will self-execute when double-clicked.
Resolution was an insoluble barrier on my Acer 32 bits NoteBook at 1024 x 600 but it won't matter with the other tablet which is Full-HD, with some additional bonus. Ah, and PLoP booted fine too!
I wish this were less involving and yet the railway picture alone kept me returning with hope it seemed.
My EFI grub for boot porteus
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- White ninja
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My EFI grub for boot porteus
Hello! Does anyone get this to work in UEFI PXE environment?
- Bicephale
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My EFI grub for boot porteus
I'd have to setup a server 1st. My router's only server is FTP...
My EFI grub for boot porteus
I would like to install Linux Porteus on my Acer Aspire SW5-012 tablet. It has an atom processor which is 64-bit but a UEFI bootloader which is 32-bit. I was told that I could use Grub2 and make 64-bit Porteus compatible. I have had no luck. I really need a step-by-step walk-through for everything. Can you help me?
Thank you,
Shawn
Thank you,
Shawn
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My EFI grub for boot porteus
Shawn a 64 bit Porteus USB system will boot on a UEFI system if the USB drive is formatted as FAT32 and all the files and folders in the ISO are copied to the USB drive and the appropriate /boot/Porteus-Installer is run. The FAT32 disk format is a requirement of UEFI not the OS. And Porteus's EFI folder on my system uses the bootx64.efi file not a 32 bit app.
These are a couple of my Grub2 menus for booting a Porteus USB drive.
These are a couple of my Grub2 menus for booting a Porteus USB drive.
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menuentry " Porteus 5.0 USB - EFI" --class slackware --class user-icon-porteus {
set bootmgr=/EFI/boot/bootx64.efi #grubx64.efi
set bootdrv=$root
search -f $bootmgr --set=root
echo bootmgr: $bootmgr
sleep -v -i 3
if [ $root != $bootdrv ]; then
chainloader $bootmgr
else
echo "----------------------------------------"
echo USB drive NOT found.
echo
sleep -v -i 10
fi
set root=$bootdrv
}
menuentry " Porteus 5.0 USB - AF'" --class slackware --class user-icon-porteus {
set porteus_parms="volume=33 reboot=cold extramod=/Modules" # changes=EXIT:/changes/porteussave.dat"
set bootdrv=$root
search -f /boot/syslinux/vmlinuz --set=root
if [ $root != $bootdrv ]; then
linux /boot/syslinux/vmlinuz $porteus_parms
initrd /boot/syslinux/initrd.xz
else
echo "----------------------------------------"
echo USB drive NOT found.
echo
sleep -v -i 10
fi
set root=$bootdrv
}
Ed