Re: [arch-general] USB flash installation medium in BIOS machines

2020-11-03 Thread Juergen Werner via arch-general
On 03.11.2020 15:15, u...@net9.ga wrote: I have 2 options for that during POST. Press F2 or Del to go into BIOS configuration and see and reorder the boot devices. This list is a classical BIOS boot device list. The other option is press F12 and Don't F2, or Del show more complex screens,

Re: [arch-general] USB flash installation medium in BIOS machines

2020-11-03 Thread u34
Juergen Werner via arch-general wrote: > On 03/11/2020 10.23, u...@net9.ga wrote:> Have you entered the firmware > configuration, or the bios configuration, > > whatever that is, to see its options? > > I have 2 options for that during POST. Press F2 or Del to go into BIOS > configuration and

Re: [arch-general] USB flash installation medium in BIOS machines

2020-11-03 Thread Juergen Werner via arch-general
On 03/11/2020 10.23, u...@net9.ga wrote:> Have you entered the firmware configuration, or the bios configuration, whatever that is, to see its options? I have 2 options for that during POST. Press F2 or Del to go into BIOS configuration and see and reorder the boot devices. This list is a

Re: [arch-general] USB flash installation medium in BIOS machines

2020-11-03 Thread u34
Damjan Georgievski via arch-general wrote: > > There are only my 2 installed hard drives plus a "USB HDD: ..." option. > > I am very positive that this laptop is legacy BIOS only and that it is > > somehow wrongly identified as UEFI? > > It can't be "wrongly identified as UEFI". If the laptop

Re: [arch-general] USB flash installation medium in BIOS machines

2020-11-02 Thread Damjan Georgievski via arch-general
> There are only my 2 installed hard drives plus a "USB HDD: ..." option. > I am very positive that this laptop is legacy BIOS only and that it is > somehow wrongly identified as UEFI? It can't be "wrongly identified as UEFI". If the laptop didn't support UEFI, then you wouldn't even see the

Re: [arch-general] USB flash installation medium in BIOS machines

2020-11-02 Thread Óscar García Amor via arch-general
El lun., 2 nov. 2020 a las 10:57, Juergen Werner via arch-general () escribió: > I tried 2 different USB drives and different USB ports. Am I missing > something? Hi jotz. I tell you a method to have a Live USB that boots directly from ISO and that can have several ISOs. Let's assume that your

Re: [arch-general] USB flash installation medium in BIOS machines

2020-11-02 Thread Juergen Werner via arch-general
On 02.11.20 15:17, Łukasz Michalski wrote: There should be two separate entries in boot menu for booting in UEFI mode and Legacy BIOS mode. What choices do you have if you open boot device menu? There are only my 2 installed hard drives plus a "USB HDD: ..." option. I am very positive that

Re: [arch-general] USB flash installation medium in BIOS machines

2020-11-02 Thread Łukasz Michalski
On 02/11/2020 12.23, Juergen Werner via arch-general wrote: > I just double checked and I don't see any mentioning of UEFI or CSM in > the BIOS settings. I always used legacy BIOS instructions and setup > before and it always worked on this machine (Acer Travelmate TM8473T). > > But I can imagine,

Re: [arch-general] USB flash installation medium in BIOS machines

2020-11-02 Thread Juergen Werner via arch-general
On 02.11.20 11:22, David Runge wrote: It seems that your hardware does support UEFI, otherwise systemd-boot would not be started. You can check in your BIOS/Firmware. Many older models have both BIOS and UEFI capabilities and usually you can select which should be used. I just double checked

Re: [arch-general] USB flash installation medium in BIOS machines

2020-11-02 Thread David Runge
On 2020-11-02 10:57:02 (+0100), Juergen Werner via arch-general wrote: > I started working on my old Laptop again, which is a pre-EFI model and > needed a live USB medium to do some repartitioning. I copied the > current installation ISO to a USB flash. When I try to boot with it, I > see the boot