hi, DJT: > Here's the stats on my situation: I am at the intermediate tails install > portion, operating off of the first usb drive I've made. I cannot get tails > to boot on either of 2 laptops. Thank you for your help! J
Thanks for your feedback! > Details > > . Tails version: tails-i386-2.6 > . Verified by Firefox plugin > . PC #1: Brand/Model: HP, Envy dv6 Notebook, AMD A10 Processor > . When I try to start with Tails, it boots from the system. When I > change the BIOS to boot from others, I see these two options: EFI (usb2:) > or the System boot. When I choose EFI, it gives me a list of options (file > structure on USB drive). Most of the files are empty. When I navigate and > find the submenu BOOT, and choose either the bootia32.efi or bootia64.efi > file, it says "no configuration file found" . I don't think that a stick installed with Universal USB Installer will boot in UEFI mode, so legacy is the way to go. See below. > . I'm using a 16GB USB stick to install it from. > . I used Universal USB installer to install it on the USB > . I've never successfully installed it before (or attempted before). > . When I enabled legacy mode, I saw this error when I chose the > bootia32.efi or bootia64.efi files. A gray window popped up with a DOS > prompt: > WARNING: No configuration file found The "legacy mode" means "non-UEFI", so if your computer allows to do so, you should *not* have to choose any .efi file, but instead you should instruct it to boot from the USB device itself. Maybe check if USB boot is enabled in the firmware (BIOS) setup, and check the boot devices order configuration? Also, is that all that's written in that "DOS prompt"? > Boot: > . PC #2: On a different laptop (ASUS), I set it up with EFI as > primary, and disabled fast boot. As said above, I don't think that EFI boot is supposed to work given you installed this stick with Universal USB Installer. > I get this message: > ----------------------Secure Boot Violation------------------------ > Invalid signature detected. Check Secure Boot Policy in Setup. Indeed, you need to disable Secure Boot. But even after doing that I think it will fail unless you boot in legacy mode. > Is there a way for me to specifically point the boot process to the config > file? I'm not sure, but anyway I don't think this would be enough to solve this EFI boot problem. > Here's the tree for the usb: > I can show details of each folder if that's helpful. Yes, a listing of the entire tree would be useful. > I did find a > syslinux.cfg file in the uui folder. Is that the config it's looking for? No idea, as I don't know (yet) which boot loader is complaining. Once I see the pictures I can probably answer this :) Cheers! _______________________________________________ tails-support mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.boum.org/listinfo/tails-support To unsubscribe from this list, send an empty email to [email protected].
