17. Aug 2017 04:36 by frank.schei...@web.de:
> Just a quick answer while I'm rechecking my burned CDROMs as per Mick's > suggestions. > > On 08/17/2017 12:29 PM, > mad.scientist.at.la...@tutanota.com> wrote: >> you did turn uefi off in the bios didn't you? gentoo installer won't work >> with uefi, though one hopes for a more specific error message in real life >> error messages can show up due to the afect, rather than what actually >> started the problem. > > Is it possible at all to switch to "BIOS (MBR)" boot mode on (U)EFI Itanium > machines? I read that message in the IA64 handbook ([1]), but didn't consider > it relevant for Itanium based machines. If there is a command in the EFI > shell to do that I haven't found it yet. > > [1]: > > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:IA64/Installation/Media#Minimal_installation_CD I know others have turned it off, should be a bios setting. don't have any boxes new enough to have personal experiance, and how/if you can do it likely varies by bios vendor and which "features" are built into your' bios. best advice is to go into your' bios and look around, generally a good idea anyway (just don't start trying things out carelessly, i've seen people do that and then claim a harddrive was bad. it wasn't, they just changed the boot order and hence grub didn't have the right location). if you have or can find the motherboards manual it's a good place to start and often has detailed instructions.
