Hello Jeremy, On Fri, 30 Jan 2015 10:35:36 +1100, Jeremy Visser <jeremy@visser.name> wrote:
On 30/01/15 10:10, Terry Duell wrote:
To make a long story short, they claim that the MB will boot legacy boot structures with particular bios settings, which I am using. They also assert that they do not support linux and the linux driver is the issue, and that I should install Windows and test if I still have the problem.
To be fair to the motherboard manufacturer, this is a valid test. It is entirely possible the UEFI implementation has only ever been tested with Windows. It is a useful test to be able to see whether the system is actually able to boot at all off removable media.
The issue at this stage is one of detecting a bootable device...it has to do that before it can be booted, and in the case of my MB no legacy bootable devices are detected, but UEFI bootable devices are. If there is a convincing argument that the OS affects the detection of a bootable device, I'll certainly try with Windows. Cheers, -- Regards, Terry Duell