Boot USB installation as EFI

cfr · 2012-12-12 00:04:14

I forget whether you've said this but can you boot any other Linux distros in EFI mode? (E.g. Ubuntu, Fedora etc.)

drobole · 2012-12-14 11:59:23

I have seen most of the problems you describe lately myself.

Using unetbootin, sometimes it says that it failed to mount and that I have to specify filesystem type. I don't know how to do that in syslinux.cfg so I scapped that idea.
However, sometimes it says it waits 30 seconds for something and then fails. In this case, the problem in my case was the same as described here:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=127031 (Look at the last 2 posts)
Doing that on a unetbootin usb fixed the problem for me once.

Still, now that you have disabled secure boot I would suggest you try a 'dd' again. Thats what I did the last time and it worked like a charm. Even though I may have been bypassing efi in the process...

Who cares anyway, uefi sux
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2aq5M3Q76U

the.ridikulus.rat · 2012-12-14 12:37:10

drobole wrote:

I have seen most of the problems you describe lately myself.
Using unetbootin, sometimes it says that it failed to mount and that I have to specify filesystem type. I don't know how to do that in syslinux.cfg so I scapped that idea.
However, sometimes it says it waits 30 seconds for something and then fails. In this case, the problem in my case was the same as described here:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=127031 (Look at the last 2 posts)
Doing that on a unetbootin usb fixed the problem for me once.
Still, now that you have disabled secure boot I would suggest you try a 'dd' again. Thats what I did the last time and it worked like a charm. Even though I may have been bypassing efi in the process...
Who cares anyway, uefi sux
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2aq5M3Q76U

Why are you guys using UNETBOOTIN and other tools? Just format the USB as FAT32, extract the iso to it using 7-zip and change the volume label of the USB to match the 'archisolael=' used in (USB)/loader/entries/archiso-x86_64.conf and reboot. Thats it.

Jcrash · 2012-12-17 05:34:18

Coming from Windows I made some notes regarding the latest install media. This is for 64-bit:

Download current .iso (https://www.archlinux.org/download/)
Format USB to FAT32, label "ARCH_201212"
*label can be found at [ISO]\loader\entries\archiso-x86_64.conf "archisolabel=ARCH_201212" (thanks to the.ridikulus.rat from above post)
Extract ISO to USB using 7-Zip (http://www.7-zip.org/)

#these are from the Archboot (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Archboot)
Create directory "[USB]\boot"
Download "initramfs_x86_64.img" and "vmlinuz_x86_64" from (http://mirror.its.dal.ca/archlinux/iso/ … 2.10/boot/)
Place these two in "[USB]\boot"

#thanks Heema: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … #p1185027)
Download rEFInd binary (http://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/getting.html)
extract "refind-bin-0.5.1.1\refind\refind_x64.efi" and rename to "bootx64.efi"
replace what is in your "[USB]\EFI\boot\" with "bootx64.efi" from above
create a new file refind.conf in same directory add the following:

textonly
scanfor manual

menuentry Arch {
loader \boot\vmlinuz_x86_64
initrd \boot\initramfs_x86_64.img
options "gpt loglevel=7 add_efi_memmap none=UEFI_ARCH_x86_64"
}

Eject if using on another computer or reboot

Press "F11" or "Del" for boot menu
Select option for "UEFI:[USB]"
rEFInd should start

I exit the Archboot installer and follow: (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Beginners%27_Guide)

pablo.see · 2012-12-17 11:47:44

Read this:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=154634

ZeDestructor · 2012-12-18 09:46:36

Wilhelm wrote:

My motherboard is Asus Maximus V Gene.
When I told the methods I've tried, I knew that not all of them should work, but since I had already tried other methods, I wanted to try them just to be sure. (dd and unetbooting)
I have also tried cgdisk (and cfdisk) + mkfs.vfat.
Cfr: I have tried those instructions also.
I have tried this with both 1Gb and 8Gb usb stick, so the partition size shouldn't be the cause.
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As I have pointed out, I can get it to boot. Check post #10.
But how to get past these errors? (Waiting 30s for the device ---> Successfully mounted ---> Can't access)

tl;dr: I needed arch install media, but anything after the October 2012 iso fails to boot on my Sabertooth Z77. So I made this frankenbuild Dec 2012 UEFI "image" by dumping the Dec 2012 files into the October 2012 loader and editing the loader.conf to have the correct ARCH_201212 label:

Get it here: http://torrage.com/torrent/FDD59A43AD2B … 7D.torrent

Just extract it to a FAT32 formatted USB drive, label the drive "ARCH_201212" and reboot into it using efi.

Hope this helps you. I have mentioned it to the arch devs, hopefully we get a fix soon, but general consensus (from my convo in IRC) is that UEFI is broken and not worth too much effort yet .

Wilhelm · 2012-12-19 12:32:12

Ok, I have wasted way too much time for this.
I'll just wait for the next release, if the one doing _free work_ would get it next time right.

ZeDestructor · 2012-12-21 14:53:36

Wilhelm wrote:

Ok, I have wasted way too much time for this.
I'll just wait for the next release, if the one doing _free work_ would get it next time right.

Any luck with the frankenbuild I made?

ronmon · 2012-12-21 15:16:34

I'm trying to DL the frankenbuild, but there are no seeders.

Just bought a new UEFI motherboard (Biostar TA970XE) and I plan to do a clean install of Arch with GRUB2 UEFI booting and as pure a systemd setup as possible. Starting with the newest installation media I can find seems to make sense.

gm112 · 2012-12-24 20:45:57

Wilhelm wrote:

OK, so I tried again and took a photo:
http://s7.postimage.org/dubby5zt3/06122012002.jpg
Message:
No loader found. Configuration files in \loader\entries\*.conf are needed.

I'm getting this error too. I'll give the frankenbuild a shot and will report back whether or not its successful. Archboot and the official ISO both fail on UEFI regardless of what method I try to boot it with via UEFI mode.

EDIT: Your solution seemed to work. Going to be seeding this for awhile so others can benefit.

Last edited by gm112 (2012-12-24 22:00:08)

ZeDestructor · 2012-12-25 04:46:23

ronmon wrote:

I'm trying to DL the frankenbuild, but there are no seeders.
Just bought a new UEFI motherboard (Biostar TA970XE) and I plan to do a clean install of Arch with GRUB2 UEFI booting and as pure a systemd setup as possible. Starting with the newest installation media I can find seems to make sense.

Should be seeding quite fast: its on my dedicated box... Wait for a while for DHT/PEX to populate, trackers seem to hate me...

gm112 wrote:

Wilhelm wrote:
OK, so I tried again and took a photo:
http://s7.postimage.org/dubby5zt3/06122012002.jpg
Message:
No loader found. Configuration files in \loader\entries\*.conf are needed.
I'm getting this error too. I'll give the frankenbuild a shot and will report back whether or not its successful. Archboot and the official ISO both fail on UEFI regardless of what method I try to boot it with via UEFI mode.
EDIT: Your solution seemed to work. Going to be seeding this for awhile so others can benefit.

Good to know this works for other people

dk0r · 2012-12-29 16:42:41

ZeDestructor wrote:

Get it here: http://torrage.com/torrent/FDD59A43AD2B … 7D.torrent

gm112 wrote:

Your solution seemed to work. Going to be seeding this for awhile so others can benefit.

..There are currently zero seeds

EDIT: Now seeded. Thanks

Last edited by dk0r (2012-12-29 17:13:17)

gm112 · 2012-12-29 17:01:39

dk0r wrote:

ZeDestructor wrote:
Get it here: http://torrage.com/torrent/FDD59A43AD2B … 7D.torrent
gm112 wrote:
Your solution seemed to work. Going to be seeding this for awhile so others can benefit.

..There are zero seeds for the torrent

Seeding again. There were 0 peers for several days, so I turned off my torrent client. I apologize for this!

Also alternatively, there's a mirror: https://www.dropbox.com/s/r96ljs6rpqe79 … _201212.7z uploaded by a fellow redditor.

engineerarun · 2013-06-22 17:54:14

Here's the procedure I followed on Ubuntu and worked fine for me -

http://oldpapyrus.wordpress.com/2013/06 … -for-uefi/

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