Pierre, Bruce, I'm amazed at (and thankful for) your incredibly fast (and excellent, to boot) responses.
I've been trying to delude myself by fantasizing that I'm _that_ high on your priority list; realistically, I'm afraid you were so happy that my missive did not continue the harping about CAs ad nauseam that you just could not contain yourselves after the breath of fresh air emanating from my post. Whatever the case might be, without directly answering your (again) excellent points, I'll make a few of my own. 1. I managed to set up an USB "flash" drive with ArchLinux using 'efibootmgr' from an Ubuntu hard-drive host. Works fine, but hélas (as Piere would put it) the corresponding USB entry (as opposed to a hard drive, it seems) are not "persistent" in my particular(?) UEFI firmware. NOT recommended, but if anybody is _that_ curios about the technical sweat, machinations and personal tribulations that went into this seemingly (to me) impossible feat, the extremely gory details are in this thread, <www.syslinux.org/archives/2015-March/023321.html> BTW, the only redeeming social value of the above back-and-forth is its peaceful and happy ending for all involved. 2. For a simple (and healthy) summary of my problem, here is the content of a (cold) e-mail I've just sent to the great guru of UEFI, Rod Smith: << I read many of your articles with great interest, especially the one about your "hair pulling" with the "Gigabyte's Hybrid EFI". Many thanks. ASUS P8H77-I, design about two years old, latest BIOS, v1102. Problem: >From an Ubuntu 14.10 host hard drive (_persistently_ UEFI boot-able!), I managed to create an ArchLinux boot-able USB drive using 'efibootmgr' and Syslinux. Unfortunately, only one time. Once I removed the USB drive, there's been no way for me to regain the entry in the BIOS once I plug it back in. I set up another USB drive in an identical way (for Arch UEFI boot), to no avail. 'efibootmgr' always shows success but on PC restart no entry. Please note that the entry for Ubuntu UEFI _hard_ drive always reappears after a disconnect-reconnect (it is mounted in a docking station connected through an eSATA-eSATA cable - worst case for an UEFI detect, I suppose)>> Please note he may or may never answer (I hate to think I may be hovering around the bottom of his priority list). 3. An SSD drive (60G, SATA III, Mushkin no less, for $35 - yes, thirty-five) is in the "mail". My plan is to _ideally_ test this "hard" drive from my 'efibootmgr' BLFS host (thus the sheepish inquiry in my OP) instead of from my "canned" Ubuntu which is just a 64-bit appendage to my 32-bit stable (B)LFS system anyway. Many thanks, -- Alex
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