<div dir="ltr">From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Tony Anderson</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tony_anderson@usa.net">tony_anderson@usa.net</a>></span><br><div class="gmail_quote">Date: Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 2:28 PM<br>Subject: Re: [XSCE] UEFI workaround?<br>To: <a href="mailto:xsce-devel@googlegroups.com">xsce-devel@googlegroups.com</a><br><br>Hi, <br><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">
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My head is still bloody banging against the brick wall.<br>
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I shipped the NUC 3401 to Nick, he should receive it today. (4gb
memory, 1TB drive)<br>
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I can reliably create a usb stick from BERNIE to install XS (NEXS
v31) on systems which have a traditional bios. This scheme does not
work on systems with UEFI firmware. Microsoft requires <br>
UEFI firmware for systems certified for Windows 8, so solving this
problem is unavoidable.<br>
<br>
The Zotac uses AMI firmware while the NUC 2820 and Gigabyte
apparently use the Intel firmware.<br>
With the Intel firmware, there is a legacy mode. It also allows the
hard drive to be installed from the <br>
usb stick. However, the system will not boot to the hard drive. So
the next step is to try the boot <br>
in legacy mode. Another option is to upgrade the bootloader to Grub2
which supports uefi. The <br>
third step is to build an iso which installs a Grub2 bootloader. In
the longer run, NEXS needs to be <br>
upgraded to CentOS 6.6 (32-bit) or, more ambitiously, to CentOS 7
(64-bit).<br>
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The Zotac symptom I have also seen with bios systems and I think is
really a kickstart issue. If <br>
the install is to a new drive, the usb stick is /dev/sda and the
hard drive is /dev/sdb. However, if the <br>
drive has been partitioned (e.g. when I am installing a new version
over an old one), the hard drive <br>
is /dev/sda and the usb stick is /dev/sdb. I have created two
versions of ks.cfg, one for each case. <br>
However, this is not working for the Zotac which reports that there
is not enough space on the hard drive instead of re-partitioning.<br>
<br>
Any help will be greatly appreciated.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
<br>
Tony</font></span><div><div class="h5"><br>
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<div>On 10/31/2014 12:50 PM, Adam Holt
wrote:<br>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Tony
Anderson’s is leaving to Africa in 6 days, assisting many
different school server deployments, and needs help
getting around "secure" BIOS/firmware UEFI on the
following platforms:</span></p>
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NUC 34010 - BIOS upgrade solves this, by moving jumper and
inserting USB memory stick containing newer Intel BIOS<br>
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NUC 2820 - installs but doesn't boot</span></p>
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Gigabyte Brix GB-BXBT-2807</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">-
Zotac nano CI320</span><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><br>
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Zotac ID81 Atom system but UEFI not Bios</span></p>
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Just in case you have any similar experience, please drop some
hints, and he'll happily reply here with Tons of more details
he's tried :)<br>
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