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Will not boot on legacy Bios - no UEFI #10

Open tcblack opened 6 years ago

tcblack commented 6 years ago

I'm attempting to boot the USB key on an aging xeon 3430 server I picked up. But it does not support UEFI and that appears to be how the minimal image is "burned" to require UEFI.

Can we burn this the old fashioned way?

tcblack commented 6 years ago

In other news: This request becomes pointless if the PXE image gets off the ground ( #9 )

delta1512 commented 6 years ago

Currently the distros only support UEFI boot and I plan on implementing legacy boot soon as i need it to start up a personal project but it requires a lot of experimentation. You should see the feature probably 1 version after the upcoming beta.

delta1512 commented 6 years ago

Just poking this thread if anyone wants to provide some links or info, I'll be working on getting UEFI and BIOS boot on the same OS this weekend. Thanks.

tcblack commented 6 years ago

I just found this looking for other info and thought it might be a helpful site overall: https://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Bootdisk-HOWTO/index.html

delta1512 commented 6 years ago

Found this here, looks promising and I might try it, but not really the way I want to go, it would make some of the code I've written useless:

https://gist.github.com/elerch/678941eb670324ffc3f261eabba81310

tomasbrod commented 6 years ago

I was able to lauch the kernel after invoking grub-install, but it failed to boot. First thing that comes to mind is to remove autodetect from mkinitcpio.