Uefi and porteus 3.0

Post#46 by **Ed_P** » 12 Jun 2018, 22:28

The only thing that should be needed for a UEFI system is to disable the UEFI Secure Boot option.

I have a 3.2.2 flash drive that boots on my EFI system. The installer should be creating a hybrid MBR and a GPT directory table. I have not tried a 4.0 flash drive install.

Post#47 by **Ed_P** » 14 Jun 2018, 18:51

fulalas were you using flash drives? And is the partition on them GPT?

Post#48 by **fulalas** » 14 Jun 2018, 21:24

Do you know Rufus? It's a Windows program that tries to simplify things in this regard. I tried basically everything using Porteus 4: FAT, FAT32, NTFS. MBR, GPT. Absolutely nothing works, hahaha!

Post#49 by **Ed_P** » 15 Jun 2018, 00:00

I have heard of Rufus fulalas but never used it. I use Easy2Boot, which use to be RMPrepUSB.

Post#50 by **fulalas** » 15 Jun 2018, 01:31

n0ctilucient wrote: ↑
14 Jun 2018, 23:18
Have you tried (using ext4 w/) UNetbootin ?

Non-Windows partition is not an option for me. Does Unetbooting work with NTFS + UEFI?

Ed_P wrote: ↑
15 Jun 2018, 00:00
I use Easy2Boot, which use to be RMPrepUSB.

Cool! Do you have a xzm for this app?

Post#51 by **fulalas** » 15 Jun 2018, 05:01

The problem with FAT32 is that it doesn't support symlinks, so it's not an ideal solution. But I'll give it a try anyway. Thanks.

Post#52 by **Ed_P** » 15 Jun 2018, 05:05

fulalas wrote: ↑
15 Jun 2018, 01:31

Ed_P wrote: ↑
15 Jun 2018, 00:00
I use Easy2Boot, which use to be RMPrepUSB.
Cool! Do you have a xzm for this app?

It's a Windows app, just like Rufus. Whether it would run under Wine I don't know.

Check out this RMPrepUSB page: http://rmprepusb.blogspot.com/2014/02/b ... un-it.html

Post#53 by **brokenman** » 17 Jun 2018, 01:49

A new way to convert MBR to GPT!! And no data lost.

Linux is sooo much easier than this windows tool.

@n0ctilucient
I think they are talking about a symlink on the real file system on the installation media. The symlink you're talking about is different. The filesystem doesn't even exist at boot time.

@Fulalas
Only FAT32 for the first partition on UEFI. You shouldn't even need to run the Porteus installer ... well not to install the mbr. Just put the folders on the fat32 partition and boot without secureboot enabled.

Post#54 by **Ed_P** » 17 Jun 2018, 12:13

brokenman wrote: ↑
17 Jun 2018, 01:49

A new way to convert MBR to GPT!! And no data lost.
Linux is sooo much easier than this windows tool.

Remember, talking about a system with files on it and maybe multiple partitions. How would Linux convert it? Gdisk?

@n0ctilucient
I think they are talking about a symlink on the real file system on the installation media. The symlink you're talking about is different. The filesystem doesn't even exist at boot time.

Would that matter? Porteus is booted, the user creates a folder on the real file system, creates a symlink to it, then creates a module of the symlink. The next time Porteus is booted, the folder is still on the real file system, Porteus loads the symlink module, the link and real folder connect. For user type folders, /home/guest/pictures/ for example, this should work imho, for system related files like drivers it wouldn't.

@Fulalas
Only FAT32 for the first partition on UEFI. You shouldn't even need to run the Porteus installer ... well not to install the mbr. Just put the folders on the fat32 partition and boot without secureboot enabled.

Interesting. The problem with FAT32 is it's limited to 32GB partitions with older Window systems. And newer flash drives can be 512GB. Also Windows doesn't support multi-partition flash drives, the last time I checked. Just checked and newer versions of Windows 10 support multiple partitions on flash drives/USB drives. So the question becomes where is the drive going to be used, with Linux and newer versions of WIndows or with older versions of Windows also.