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arkindal

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Registered: 2009-09-01

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[SOLVED] USB not showing on boot menu

Greetings! I recently got an HP - Pavilion Sleekbook 15-b129el and I wanted to install arch on it. I'm having problems tho.
I used clonezilla to, obviously, clone the hard drive, just in case I want to put windows 8 back (hardly but you never know), and it worked just fine.
Then I decided to put arch in the same usb. Of course now it doesn't work anymore. I tried arch and I figured the laptop just doesn't like it, so I tried BSD, and something else.
I thought I'd try clonezilla again, just to check. Doesn't work anymore.
Saying "doesn't work" I mean the usb doesn't show up in the boot menu anymore.
Any suggestion?
Thanks in advance, I know this is probably something really stupid but I guess I'm stupid enough to be unable to figure it out.

EDIT:

Solved, I had to disable uefi AND enable legacy boot.
Silly me.

Last edited by arkindal (2013-06-13 17:12:22)

czubek

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Registered: 2012-03-08

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Re: [SOLVED] USB not showing on boot menu

Perhaps search for UEFI and Windows 8's secure boot option. Your bios may enable you to turn it off.

arkindal

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Registered: 2009-09-01

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Re: [SOLVED] USB not showing on boot menu

Perhaps search for UEFI and Windows 8's secure boot option. Your bios may enable you to turn it off.

Yeah I did that, UEFI is disabled.

czubek

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Re: [SOLVED] USB not showing on boot menu

I am interested in UEFI as I plan to upgrade my computer in the near future and utilize a dual boot arrangement. It is interesting that you also had to resort to legacy bios as well as disable secure boot to install Arch. I was under the impression that just switching off secure boot would still enable installing Arch in UEFI mode.

arkindal

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Re: [SOLVED] USB not showing on boot menu

I actually didn't go much further... I was really confused by the wiki about the partition for UEFI, I don't quite catch if I'm still supposed to make a UEFI partition even if I disabled it...

czubek

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Re: [SOLVED] USB not showing on boot menu

With a newer, more powerful computer the difference between UEFI and bios may be a moot point.

arkindal

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Re: [SOLVED] USB not showing on boot menu

I'm sorry, I don't understand.