Hello, I inform you that I've just opened a ticket about DoudouLinux (missing) support for UEFI:
http://team.doudoulinux.org/issues/720 This is the consequence of several bug reports from people who purchased a USB key: DDL cannot boot on recent computers. Discussing with one of our customers, it seems now obvious that the issue is UEFI, the successor of BIOS on recent PC computers. Few years ago Microsoft announced their will to mimic Apple and switch from BIOS to UEFI. Officially it is for security reasons (being able to boot signed kernels only, at a hardware level, signed by Microsoft of course!) but this sounded like the final threat for the Linux ecosystem. During the following years, computers have allowed both boot processes (BIOS and UEFI) to live side by side, leaving the false feeling of no change. It now seems recent computers don't allow legacy BIOS out of the box, require complex setup to get it back if they haven't dropped it for real. As a result, on recent computers, DDL is not easy to boot as a gaming console anymore :(. This is a major issue that needs to be fixed for v3.0. This will likely require much work and testing but if we can't do that, the project can be stopped right now. Also I invite you to read the ticket and help as much as you can, by testing other Live CD/DVD that are based on Debian (eg. Mint, Tails), by trying to compile your own DVD using Debian Live tools (it's quite easy if you're not rebuilding your own DDL!), by installing bootloaders on USB keys to boot the DDL ISO from the key, etc. Of course you need a computer that can be switched to UEFI only… Cheers, JM. _______________________________________________ Doudoulinux-lang mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/doudoulinux-lang
