Richard Owlett wrote: > Would what you do explicitly depend on EFI? > I don't have a clear idea of what Kenneth described in his original post. > HOWEVER, having such a system might be worthwhile to explore some of my > ideas. I have a collection of elderly machines, some with only legacy > BIOS.
My requirement, I described above, was to prepare a bootable USB from a RHEL server, which uses EFI. I have done this before many times on Debian without EFI. I will test this with Buster and post the steps here next. I use such USB sticks for resque operations or when I need to for example extend a root partition, or whatever you can imagine. Regarding older hardware, it might be that the kernel does not support this or that. You know Debian does not support CPU<=586 and might be that some drivers are missing, but when you run from the USB, you will know for sure. regards
