Re: USB media install has wrong partition

the boot error on a dell system either. Thank you for your support and time. On Sat, Sep 15, 2018 at 07:09:58PM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > John Roman wrote: > > As I understand, a Protective MBR may be located at LBA 0 > > In the case of the isohybrid partitio

Re: USB media install has wrong partition

As an update, Ive tested devuan, debian, and ubuntu media on a newer laptop (2015) which seems to recognize the EFI partition and boot normally. my desktop (2012) does not seem to understand 0xEF...I wish I knew why. On Sat, Sep 15, 2018 at 03:39:35AM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > j...@dev1ce.c

Re: USB media install has wrong partition

Correct sir, I am having issues installing to an asus sabertooth 990 motherboard. namely, the boot override menu fails to recognize the EFI media as a proper EFI bootable target. As I understand, a Protective MBR may be located at LBA 0 (i.e., the first logical block) of the disk if it is using t

USB media install has wrong partition

greetings, the USB install media for netinst and live both create a dos partition table on dd, and cp. This will result in media that can only be booted legacy, as GPT is a requirement for EFI boot.