Whats your preferd UEFI installation medium

reddragon · n00b Joined: 04 Apr 2017 Posts: 24

now the Minimal CD no longer supports it?

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2017 10:58 pm Post subject:

reddragon,

System Rescue CD.
Its Gentoo based and allows you to follow the Gentoo Handbook with no extra steps
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ian.au · Guru Joined: 07 Apr 2011 Posts: 591 Location: Australia

http://www.system-rescue-cd.org/ is all I have used for years.

reddragon · n00b Joined: 04 Apr 2017 Posts: 24

correct me if im wrong but i thought systemrescuecd doesn't support UEFI

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2017 11:13 pm Post subject:

reddragon,

I've not tested it in UEFI mode personally but I understand it supports both BIOS and UEFI installs.
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reddragon · n00b Joined: 04 Apr 2017 Posts: 24

i just tryed systemresucecd, uefi works fine if you disable secureboot.

NeddySeagoon, you dont like uefi? it's all new to me!

I've got the option to just use bios, would that be better?

I was thinking the secureboot and tpm would be good security additions.

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Sun Apr 23, 2017 8:59 am Post subject:

reddragon,

My newest hardware is from 2009. It does not have UEFI as an option.
My KVM installs are done by cloning an existing KVM, so they don't count.

The old way is going to go away sometime. If you want to use a HDD > 2TiB you must use a GPT partition table.
Mixing BIOS booting with GPT can be difficult going on impossible with a few BIOSes.

Go with UEFI. Its not that I don't like it, I've not had the the opportunity to evaluate it.

Secureboot can be made to work too.

Why would you trust the keys already in the BIOS and the TPM?
How have they earned your trust or how have you validated them?
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reddragon · n00b Joined: 04 Apr 2017 Posts: 24

Zucca · Posted: Sun Apr 23, 2017 11:05 am Post subject:

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Sun Apr 23, 2017 11:47 am Post subject:

Zucca,

You can cheat with MSDOS partition tables on some drives.
The partition table entries are in logical sectors ... some drive advertise 4kB physical and logical sectors.
2^32 4kB sectors is 16TiB.

Setting up an MSDOS partition table to describe up to 16TiB (on suitable hardware) is left as an exercise for the reader.
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Zucca · Posted: Sun Apr 23, 2017 2:08 pm Post subject:

Heh. Nice cheat indeed.
In fields of computing we always find some interesting way to "artifically respirate" old hardware and software. :)

R0b0t1 · Apprentice Joined: 05 Jun 2008 Posts: 264

Fedora has signed releases, so that's what I used to create a LiveUSB.

Naib · Posted: Fri Apr 28, 2017 6:21 pm Post subject:

sysrescueCD.

seems to be ok with UFEI as well
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axl · Veteran Joined: 11 Oct 2002 Posts: 1144 Location: Romania

i used the ubuntu installer. the large image. http://releases.ubuntu.com/16.04.2/ubuntu-16.04.2-desktop-amd64.iso

it has support for uefi, boots in X and fully supports installing gentoo like it's gentoo. so... that worked for me, didn't look for anything else.