On Sat, Jan 9, 2016 at 2:15 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier <[email protected]> wrote: > | From: o1bigtenor <[email protected]> > > | BestBuy had some systems on sale for after Christmas so ordered an Asus > desktop. > | > | AMD mobo 6 GB of ram, built in wifi w DVD RW all for can $360 inc shipping. > > When asking for help, concrete information reduces uncertainty of your > reader. So: what exactly did you buy?
Asus K20BF. > > | Now comes the kicker. Wanted to set the uefi bios to boot from Cd-rom > | so that I could use gparted to give myself some disc room to enable a > | dual boot system (Debian testing being the flavor du jour). It will > | NOT boot onto the cd-rom it says that an illegal modification has been > | made to the bios and the next boot option must be chosen. > > Perhaps you left Secure Boot enabled? I don't think that debian is > set up to satisfy the Secure Boot requirements. You can turn it of in > the firmware configuation (what we used to call the BIOS setup screen). > > I'm assuming that this is a UEFI boot disk. If not, there is more > mucking about you have to do to enable MBR booting (and CSM loading). That was the clue that I needed. Secure boot was still enabled. With that removed I was able to use gparted to reduce the large partition to something that leaves room for what I want. I have been mucking about with a server uefi bios and I thought that that was imbecilic but this one here made the server one seem straight forward and that's scary. No wonder most people won't touch their computers - - - the bloatware malware and useless obsfucation isn't just rampant there isn't anything else left! > > | (There was zero material with this system. It boots and all but there > | is nothing with it. Even the OS key is burned into the bios. There > | isn't even a system sticker any more!!) > > I'm not 100% sure where Windows license cookie crumbs live any longer. > Once you update the Win 10, I think they live in Microsoft's database > (they call it the Cloud to make it seem more new-age). > > | Any suggestions on how to get this system to boot onto the cd-rom > | short of pulling the hard drive and replacing it? > > A precise and accurate symptom report might or might not help us help you. Even the right questions can be useful!! Thank you! Dee --- Talk Mailing List [email protected] https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
