On 24 March 2015 at 23:17, alex lupu <[email protected]> wrote: > 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). >
My experience is that he answers all his email -- a little like Richard Stallman. > > 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. > > Richard
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