On 30 January 2015 at 14:59, Brian May <brian@microcomaustralia.com.au> wrote:
On 30 January 2015 at 10:10, Terry Duell <tduell@iinet.net.au> wrote:
It turns out that my MB bios will only detect UEFI boot structures and any devices (USB, DVD) with pre UEFI (legacy) boot structure is not detected...ie. never show up in the boot menu. I have been trying to get a resolution to this from the MB manufacturer.
Have you tried a booting an EFI Linux CDROM?
From memory the Debian wheezy installer supports EFI. I also see work being done on EFI in the Jessie installer <http://blog.einval.com/>.
Of course, if you cannot turn off secure EFI boot, that could be a bigger issue. I think Ubuntu (and maybe others) might have signed EFI CD images, not absolutely sure however.
Ubuntu's releases have been signed for Secure Boot for a few years now, I think since the 12.04 LTS release maybe? As it turned out, Terry's problem was not related to secure boot though. Toby