On 19/7/19 6:21 pm, Otto Moerbeek wrote: > Or save yourself the trouble and go for legacy mode. > > -Otto >
… except if legacy mode is broken on the machine in question, in which case you're stuffed. I had a baptism of fire with a UEFI-only motherboard (Supermicro A2SDi-16C-HLN4F) earlier this week. I had an existing install of Gentoo Linux that I wanted to run on it, but it was partitioned and set up for a BIOS-based boot set-up, not UEFI. I ended up PXE-booting Ubuntu (for which there was a UEFI-compatible PXE image), doing a back-up to a USB drive, installing Ubuntu, then having gotten the machine booting, imaging Gentoo back across. Pretty sure it refused to look at a CD with El Torito boot sectors on it (so there goes install65.iso and cd65.iso), and it flatly refused to load pxelinux.0 as shipped by Ubuntu/Debian. Not sure if OpenBSD's boot-loader is UEFI-compatible, but if not, you'll strike the very same issues. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.
