UEFI trouble not solved by following wiki

chuckiv · 2014-10-09 09:53:42

http://www.asrock.com/mb/AMD/880GMHU3S3/

my mobo

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a … -_-Product

my ssd hdd

first of all, when i boot from usb its not in EFI and i dont know why. I followed all the instructions in requirements for UEFI wiki to no avail.

so then I tried installing without efi and when i get to bootloader like syslinux i get error FAILED to set attribute Legacy BIOS Bootable

and yes, i followed wiki to the letter. i installed gptfdisk etc.

I cant get UEFI to work and it wont let me do legacy bios either. I'm at a loss. I've been reading wiki's for the last 3 hours... any ideas?

i just noticed 2 boot options, usb and uefi, selected uefi and got "Error: Failed to install override security policy: (14) not found"

googled and found an old arch forum thread from 2012 that said updating bios may help. updated bios, didnt help. the thread didnt have a solution. ended by saying to email some developers as this error is very rare. but this was from 2012.

If I have a UEFI mobo do I HAVE to boot UEFI? Because I can boot usb without it and get to arch prompt but then I dont know what to do in the beginners guide when i go to install boot loader...

Last edited by chuckiv (2014-10-09 10:43:48)

teateawhy · 2014-10-09 11:52:13

I have found two forum posts that are marked as solved by searching for the Error you have described, both are newer than 2012.
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=169354
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=174734
EDIT: And another, more recent one: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=188059
Maybe you are not googling hard enough

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chuckiv · 2014-10-09 12:09:17

the third link is from 2010 dude, the first 2 I dont understand either. how do I use rEFInd if I'm not even to the part where I can use pacman yet? I suppose I will try editing the .iso but I have no idea how to do that.

"Thus, you can safely bypass the PreLoader program: Mount the USB flash drive's ESP and copy EFI/BOOT/loader.efi to EFI/BOOT/bootx64.efi, overwriting the original file."

how do I mount the usb flash drives ESP? what is an esp? I am booting the usb and doing ls and all I see is install.txt, where is EFI/BOOT/loader.efi? I don't see that anywhere... this is wayyyy too confusing for me, about to give up

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teateawhy · 2014-10-09 12:16:57

The third link is from yesterday. I repeat the same link here:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=188059

chuckiv · 2014-10-09 12:20:39

oh my bad, was looking at the registered dates

"copying loader.efi to bootx64.efi solved the problem"

how do I do this? I can't find this loader.efi anywhere, I don't even know where to look for it, actually

wait, do i do this in grub?

"raw copying the files to the usb key filesystem" <--- what does this mean? how do I even do this?

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chuckiv · 2014-10-09 12:36:25

ok, so I put the usb in my other computer and found loader.efi and tried to copy it to bootx64.efi and I get the error:

cp: cannot create regular file ‘bootx64.efi’: Read-only file system

well, i was finally able to edit the usb with isomaster but when i try to boot it - it says "reboot and select proper boot device" so I'm at a loss.

while there are threads marked solved for this, they dont give enough detail for a beginner like me. thanks anyways

Last edited by chuckiv (2014-10-09 14:15:16)

teateawhy · 2014-10-09 14:47:23

chuckiv wrote:

ok, so I put the usb in my other computer and found loader.efi and tried to copy it to bootx64.efi and I get the error:
cp: cannot create regular file ‘bootx64.efi’: Read-only file system
well, i was finally able to edit the usb with isomaster but when i try to boot it - it says "reboot and select proper boot device" so I'm at a loss.
while there are threads marked solved for this, they dont give enough detail for a beginner like me. thanks anyways

You have to prepare the usb stick using the "manual formatting method", as explained here, then do the copy command.
Before you have been using dd instead of manual formatting, right?

TheSaint · 2014-10-09 16:17:23

Which wiki?

chuckiv · 2014-10-09 19:35:06

teateawhy, yes, I have been using dd. QUESTION, in that link for manual formatting it says:Make sure that the latest syslinux package (version 6.02 or newer) is installed on the system. The system I am on now uses gummiboot. Do I need to install syslinux also, just to make the usb for the machine I'm trying to install on?

thesaint, the beginners install wiki, the UEFI wiki, various troubleshooting wikis. hard to recall exactly because I have been reading so many of them. grub wiki, gummiboot wiki, rEFInd wiki, syslinux. GPT / MBR wiki, UEFI / BIOS wiki, etc etc

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chuckiv · 2014-10-09 20:33:52

ok so I did this

# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdz
//cleans the usb drive
#  fdisk /dev/sdz
// press m and read the help, make a partition, make it bootable
// you have to press (double check anyway):
// n, p, 1, <enter>, <enter>, a, 1, t, b, w
# mkfs.vfat /dev/sdz1
// formatting

but when I get to

sudo cp -a /mnt/iso/* /mnt/usb

it says:

cp: error writing ‘/mnt/usb/EFI/archiso/efiboot.img’: No space left on device
cp: failed to extend ‘/mnt/usb/EFI/archiso/efiboot.img’: No space left on device
cp: cannot create directory ‘/mnt/usb/EFI/boot’: No space left on device
cp: cannot create directory ‘/mnt/usb/isolinux’: No space left on device
cp: cannot create directory ‘/mnt/usb/loader’: No space left on device

also, when I do:

sudo mount /dev/sdb /mnt/usb

I get: mount: /dev/sdb is write-protected, mounting read-only

is this normal? or does this mean the usb is messed up? I followed the directions here extactly: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=62268

alright, formatted usb in windows then it worked. now im trying to change the UUID in gparted per the wiki and I am following http://gparted.org/display-doc.php?name … ition-uuid

the option is greyed out, the drive is unmounted as per the instructions. I cannot change the UUID to ARCH_2014XX (ARCH_201410) in my case. stuck again...

Last edited by chuckiv (2014-10-09 21:06:59)

chuckiv · 2014-10-09 21:33:27

thanks anyways guys... this is WAY over my head... going to try another distro

i was able to install arch just fine on my laptop with dd, this manual usb creation is not working out though

Last edited by chuckiv (2014-10-09 21:37:14)

zir_blazer · 2014-10-10 05:58:04

If you already have a Linux distribution installed, why you don't go for the easiest way?
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/US … NU.2FLinux

dd bs=4M if=archlinux.iso of=/dev/sdz && sync

This should work flawlessly.

TheSaint · 2014-10-10 07:16:10

If GUI is the liking, what about Archbang or installing from a live Graphic distro, like this wiki.
I've done it within an Ubuntu iso,

teateawhy · 2014-10-10 09:04:50

chuckiv wrote:

ok so I did this

also, when I do:
sudo mount /dev/sdb /mnt/usb
I get: mount: /dev/sdb is write-protected, mounting read-only
is this normal? or does this mean the usb is messed up?

You are supposed to mount a filesystem by giving disk and partition, for example /dev/sdb1 . You only specified the disk, /dev/sdb instead of disk and partition.
Either learn more about basics like this or choose another distribution.

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