Re: [SLUG] Weird behaviour of Intel Nuc's

2014-11-17 Thread James Linder
On 18 Nov 2014, at 9:00 am, slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote: The install wasn't really the problem (once I got a version of Linux and the BIOS updated) - just cloning it. I think it came down to the UEFI stuff not liking being cloned. I have dd’d A disk in and out succesfully but even 2

Re: [SLUG] Weird behaviour of Intel Nuc's

2014-11-16 Thread DaZZa
On 12 November 2014 15:54, Patrick Shirkey pshir...@boosthardware.com wrote: Did you enable the M$ UEFI rootkit or are you using the normal/traditional BIOS? Couldn't get them to boot in legacy mode (they didn't see the storage as a disk), so I had to use UEFI mode. BTW, I installed Debian

Re: [SLUG] Weird behaviour of Intel Nuc's

2014-11-16 Thread DaZZa
On 13 November 2014 12:25, James Linder j...@tigger.ws wrote: I’ve booted ubuntu, suse and arch on the atom, i3 and i5 versions. It’s easy but fiddly … First start with a blank disk. I dd if=/dev/zero because the efi partition is a bitch. I *have* dualbooted Win7 and linux but it is really

Re: [SLUG] Weird behaviour of Intel Nuc's

2014-11-16 Thread James Linder
On 17 Nov 2014, at 9:00 am, slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote: I’ve booted ubuntu, suse and arch on the atom, i3 and i5 versions. It’s easy but fiddly … First start with a blank disk. I dd if=/dev/zero because the efi partition is a bitch. I *have* dualbooted Win7 and linux but it is

Re: [SLUG] Weird behaviour of Intel Nuc's

2014-11-16 Thread DaZZa
On 17 November 2014 12:22, James Linder j...@tigger.ws wrote: The install wasn't really the problem (once I got a version of Linux and the BIOS updated) - just cloning it. I think it came down to the UEFI stuff not liking being cloned. I have dd’d A disk in and out succesfully but even 2

Re: [SLUG] Weird behaviour of Intel Nuc's

2014-11-16 Thread Jake Anderson
On 17/11/14 12:40, DaZZa wrote: On 17 November 2014 12:22, James Linder j...@tigger.ws wrote: The install wasn't really the problem (once I got a version of Linux and the BIOS updated) - just cloning it. I think it came down to the UEFI stuff not liking being cloned. I have dd’d A disk in

Re: [SLUG] Weird behaviour of Intel Nuc's

2014-11-13 Thread Ben Donohue
Hi Dazza, I've had some weird problems with rolling out many boxes in the past. I would have first set all the bios to factory default so that they are all the same. (After checking firmware versions are the same etc...) I've had in the past two really weird things happen. First was a

Re: [SLUG] Weird behaviour of Intel Nuc's

2014-11-12 Thread James Linder
On 13 Nov 2014, at 9:00 am, slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote: So I got my hands on two Intel Nuc's for work (nice toys - small and quiet), and that other OS everyone seems to love didn't want to install on the USB disk which was stuck in them, the decision was made to go to Linux. A bit

[SLUG] Weird behaviour of Intel Nuc's

2014-11-11 Thread DaZZa
Long time no post. So I got my hands on two Intel Nuc's for work (nice toys - small and quiet), and that other OS everyone seems to love didn't want to install on the USB disk which was stuck in them, the decision was made to go to Linux. A bit of research showed me that Ubuntu was about the

Re: [SLUG] Weird behaviour of Intel Nuc's

2014-11-11 Thread Michael Chesterton
On 12/11/14 15:13, DaZZa wrote: And it flat out refused to boot. Nada. Get nicked. I thought I must have stuffed up the image - but both disks booted the first device fine. After scratching my head for a few hours and trying every BIOS option I could find, I decided to try a fresh install

Re: [SLUG] Weird behaviour of Intel Nuc's

2014-11-11 Thread DaZZa
On 12 November 2014 15:25, Michael Chesterton che...@chesterton.id.au wrote: On 12/11/14 15:13, DaZZa wrote: Has anyone come across this before? Is it something specific to Ubuntu, or is it the stupid SecureBoot crap (which was turned off, by the way) they put into the BIOS for these things

Re: [SLUG] Weird behaviour of Intel Nuc's

2014-11-11 Thread Patrick Shirkey
On Wed, November 12, 2014 3:29 pm, DaZZa wrote: On 12 November 2014 15:25, Michael Chesterton che...@chesterton.id.au wrote: On 12/11/14 15:13, DaZZa wrote: Has anyone come across this before? Is it something specific to Ubuntu, or is it the stupid SecureBoot crap (which was turned off, by