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  1. When I setup a GELI encrypted disk on #FreeBSD and boot into that I have to enter the GELI passphrase. But it seems to be a US layout used in that #EFI console - can that be changed?

  2. fwupdmgr ist einfach großartig! 👌

    Egal ob Dock-Firmware, EFI oder sonst etwas - FW-Aktualisierungen waren nie einfacher.

    #linux #fwupdmgr #firmware #efi #update

  3. CSMWrap arriva come soluzione elegante per far partire sistemi BIOS legacy su macchine moderne prive di CSM. Un’app EFI che integra SeaBIOS e riporta in vita vecchi OS su hardware UEFI‑only. #CSMWrap #UEFI #Linux #OpenSource #EFI

    linuxeasy.org/csmwrap-avviare-

  4. After way too many attempts, I finally got a custom GRUB2 EFI bootloader built with Buildroot showing a splash image at boot on real hardware 🎉

    The secret? insmod gfxterm_background + font in the right path.

    Simple in theory, painful in practice 🤕

    #Buildroot #GRUB2 #EFI #Linux #EmbeddedLinux

  5. This week has been full of major improvements to my setup across my . I now have:
    1. Significantly faster boot times due to quicker decryption by separating out and into separate volumes.
    2. Upgrade from to (while most of the rest of my setup)
    3. Better visuals for LUKS passphrase prompts using (finally)

    I couldn't have asked for more improvements in barely two days.

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  7. I was given a HP Stream 7 tablet yesterday, Originally it ran Windows 8 - Which must have been highly optimized for this. It only has 1gb ram, and 32gb storage. With an #Intel #Atom Z3235G quad core. So I tried to install #linux on it. The biggest frustration I'm having with it thou, is the #EFI only supports #32bit boot. And I've only found #Antix to actually install, but I can't get wifi to work, or sound. I think #Lubuntu might work but it fails at installing grub i386.

    #HPStream7 #Win8

  8. I was given a HP Stream 7 tablet yesterday, Originally it ran Windows 8 - Which must have been highly optimized for this. It only has 1gb ram, and 32gb storage. With an #Intel #Atom Z3235G quad core. So I tried to install #linux on it. The biggest frustration I'm having with it thou, is the #EFI only supports #32bit boot. And I've only found #Antix to actually install, but I can't get wifi to work, or sound. I think #Lubuntu might work but it fails at installing grub i386.

    #HPStream7 #Win8

  9. I was given a HP Stream 7 tablet yesterday, Originally it ran Windows 8 - Which must have been highly optimized for this. It only has 1gb ram, and 32gb storage. With an #Intel #Atom Z3235G quad core. So I tried to install #linux on it. The biggest frustration I'm having with it thou, is the #EFI only supports #32bit boot. And I've only found #Antix to actually install, but I can't get wifi to work, or sound. I think #Lubuntu might work but it fails at installing grub i386.

    #HPStream7 #Win8

  10. I was given a HP Stream 7 tablet yesterday, Originally it ran Windows 8 - Which must have been highly optimized for this. It only has 1gb ram, and 32gb storage. With an #Intel #Atom Z3235G quad core. So I tried to install #linux on it. The biggest frustration I'm having with it thou, is the #EFI only supports #32bit boot. And I've only found #Antix to actually install, but I can't get wifi to work, or sound. I think #Lubuntu might work but it fails at installing grub i386.

    #HPStream7 #Win8

  11. I was given a HP Stream 7 tablet yesterday, Originally it ran Windows 8 - Which must have been highly optimized for this. It only has 1gb ram, and 32gb storage. With an #Intel #Atom Z3235G quad core. So I tried to install #linux on it. The biggest frustration I'm having with it thou, is the #EFI only supports #32bit boot. And I've only found #Antix to actually install, but I can't get wifi to work, or sound. I think #Lubuntu might work but it fails at installing grub i386.

    #HPStream7 #Win8

  12. When you have workflows like mine it's unreasonable to have dozens of slow usb sticks ready to dd distributions on. It's cumbersome to index / manage so many slow devices. USB sticks also live much shorter than 2.5" SSD's here. I've had some working for years (mostly reads) And some fail in weeks after many writes, for me unreliable storage devices

    Ventoy has become a vital tool ISO mangagement and booting for me, since I can dump bootable ISO''s of most OS's on SATA SSD's, structure the ISO's in logical directory flows and have a librarian oversight of them

    I can mount the SSD via an USB3 tray and thus move hundreds of ISO's around without a fuzz. I use 2.5" SATA SSD's because they are large enough in physical dimensions to be handled easily and I can write and ID on them with a marker. They can also live for years of R/W operations without failing.

    Ventoy can easily boot a variety ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI of OS's which are of various origin.
    >> Ventoy is an open source tool to create bootable USB drive for ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI files

    When a ISO++ fails to boot, you need to make the coder(s) of Ventoy aware of it, and chances are that in the next update, scripts have been finetuned so Ventoy can handle that family of files also.

    Ventoy is easy to use update run & maintain for the end user.

    Try Ventoy

    ventoy.net/en/index.html

    #Ventoy #ISO #Linux #BSD #VHD #IMG #EFI #Linux #OpenSource #BOOT #POST

  13. When you have workflows like mine it's unreasonable to have dozens of slow usb sticks ready to dd distributions on. It's cumbersome to index / manage so many slow devices. USB sticks also live much shorter than 2.5" SSD's here. I've had some working for years (mostly reads) And some fail in weeks after many writes, for me unreliable storage devices

    Ventoy has become a vital tool ISO mangagement and booting for me, since I can dump bootable ISO''s of most OS's on SATA SSD's, structure the ISO's in logical directory flows and have a librarian oversight of them

    I can mount the SSD via an USB3 tray and thus move hundreds of ISO's around without a fuzz. I use 2.5" SATA SSD's because they are large enough in physical dimensions to be handled easily and I can write and ID on them with a marker. They can also live for years of R/W operations without failing.

    Ventoy can easily boot a variety ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI of OS's which are of various origin.
    >> Ventoy is an open source tool to create bootable USB drive for ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI files

    When a ISO++ fails to boot, you need to make the coder(s) of Ventoy aware of it, and chances are that in the next update, scripts have been finetuned so Ventoy can handle that family of files also.

    Ventoy is easy to use update run & maintain for the end user.

    Try Ventoy

    ventoy.net/en/index.html

    #Ventoy #ISO #Linux #BSD #VHD #IMG #EFI #Linux #OpenSource #BOOT #POST

  14. When you have workflows like mine it's unreasonable to have dozens of slow usb sticks ready to dd distributions on. It's cumbersome to index / manage so many slow devices. USB sticks also live much shorter than 2.5" SSD's here. I've had some working for years (mostly reads) And some fail in weeks after many writes, for me unreliable storage devices

    Ventoy has become a vital tool ISO mangagement and booting for me, since I can dump bootable ISO''s of most OS's on SATA SSD's, structure the ISO's in logical directory flows and have a librarian oversight of them

    I can mount the SSD via an USB3 tray and thus move hundreds of ISO's around without a fuzz. I use 2.5" SATA SSD's because they are large enough in physical dimensions to be handled easily and I can write and ID on them with a marker. They can also live for years of R/W operations without failing.

    Ventoy can easily boot a variety ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI of OS's which are of various origin.
    >> Ventoy is an open source tool to create bootable USB drive for ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI files

    When a ISO++ fails to boot, you need to make the coder(s) of Ventoy aware of it, and chances are that in the next update, scripts have been finetuned so Ventoy can handle that family of files also.

    Ventoy is easy to use update run & maintain for the end user.

    Try Ventoy

    ventoy.net/en/index.html

    #Ventoy #ISO #Linux #BSD #VHD #IMG #EFI #Linux #OpenSource #BOOT #POST

  15. When you have workflows like mine it's unreasonable to have dozens of slow usb sticks ready to dd distributions on. It's cumbersome to index / manage so many slow devices. USB sticks also live much shorter than 2.5" SSD's here. I've had some working for years (mostly reads) And some fail in weeks after many writes, for me unreliable storage devices

    Ventoy has become a vital tool ISO mangagement and booting for me, since I can dump bootable ISO''s of most OS's on SATA SSD's, structure the ISO's in logical directory flows and have a librarian oversight of them

    I can mount the SSD via an USB3 tray and thus move hundreds of ISO's around without a fuzz. I use 2.5" SATA SSD's because they are large enough in physical dimensions to be handled easily and I can write and ID on them with a marker. They can also live for years of R/W operations without failing.

    Ventoy can easily boot a variety ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI of OS's which are of various origin.
    >> Ventoy is an open source tool to create bootable USB drive for ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI files

    When a ISO++ fails to boot, you need to make the coder(s) of Ventoy aware of it, and chances are that in the next update, scripts have been finetuned so Ventoy can handle that family of files also.

    Ventoy is easy to use update run & maintain for the end user.

    Try Ventoy

    ventoy.net/en/index.html

    #Ventoy #ISO #Linux #BSD #VHD #IMG #EFI #Linux #OpenSource #BOOT #POST

  16. When you have workflows like mine it's unreasonable to have dozens of slow usb sticks ready to dd distributions on. It's cumbersome to index / manage so many slow devices. USB sticks also live much shorter than 2.5" SSD's here. I've had some working for years (mostly reads) And some fail in weeks after many writes, for me unreliable storage devices

    Ventoy has become a vital tool ISO mangagement and booting for me, since I can dump bootable ISO''s of most OS's on SATA SSD's, structure the ISO's in logical directory flows and have a librarian oversight of them

    I can mount the SSD via an USB3 tray and thus move hundreds of ISO's around without a fuzz. I use 2.5" SATA SSD's because they are large enough in physical dimensions to be handled easily and I can write and ID on them with a marker. They can also live for years of R/W operations without failing.

    Ventoy can easily boot a variety ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI of OS's which are of various origin.
    >> Ventoy is an open source tool to create bootable USB drive for ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI files

    When a ISO++ fails to boot, you need to make the coder(s) of Ventoy aware of it, and chances are that in the next update, scripts have been finetuned so Ventoy can handle that family of files also.

    Ventoy is easy to use update run & maintain for the end user.

    Try Ventoy

    ventoy.net/en/index.html

    #Ventoy #ISO #Linux #BSD #VHD #IMG #EFI #Linux #OpenSource #BOOT #POST

  17. For days I've been trying to get the integrated #GPU on my #MacBook working on #Linux. But it doesn't show up anywhere in the system. It's like it is not there at all.

    Turns out: it in fact isn't. If you boot anything other than #macOS the #EFI itself turns the integrated GPU off leaving only the dedicated GPU.

    This little EFI program turns it back on again:

    github.com/0xbb/apple_set_os.e

    #Apple

  18. For me the method described on the Asus NUC support section worked

    The miniPC refused to boot after a BIOS settings regarding display / power were modified.

    Contrary to my logical thinking, miniPC's made by Intel, refuse to follow standard BIOS UEFI reset methods, of normal motherboards, which involve setting a cmos jumper then clearing the faulty settings, after default setting boot

    This machine wanted me to
    * download it's (current) UEFI (BIOS)
    * create a fat32 partition on a USB drive (I used SATA USB SSD)
    * unzip the package setting the encapsulated file (.bio) in the root dir of the partition
    * remove the security jumper (yellow)
    * connect & power the USB SATA SSD
    * power up the miniPC (NUC)
    * wait for the machine to read the encapsulated BIOS stop the flash sequence / countdown (30 secs)
    * choose theBIOS entry option
    * after reboot cycle reset the BIOS to default settings
    * disable TPM and Intel platfor rubbish
    * reboot then reconfigure the BIOS
    * check all settings

    Without my Android & later my SBC I would have been stuck

    Reference to

    mastodon.bsd.cafe/@Dendrobatus

    #EFI #UEFI #BIOS #recovery #POST #technology #Asus #MiniPC #hardware #NUC #BLKNUC7i3DNH2E

  19. FreeBSD, Debian и Secure Boot

    В этом руководстве описывается процесс настройки FreeBSD 15 для работы в режиме Secure Boot. Создадим Machine Owner Key, установим его в UEFI, подпишем загрузчик. Secure Boot: [ ON ]

    habr.com/ru/articles/978240/

    #FreeBSD #secureboot #загрузчик #efi

  20. New blog post from me: I Stubbed My Bootloader And Lived To Tell The Tale

    martinh.net/hacks/zero-boot/

    It all started when a man with a gun sent my laptop flying, while we were travelling at over 100 miles per hour…

    #MildPeril #Linux #GRUB #EFI #UEFI #EFIBootStub #Arch #btw

  21. Recently started having rEFInd (actually, I think the EFI BTRFS driver) fail to load the kernel ("Not Found"). Infuriating since the kernel works in other filesystems (even BTRFS ones!) and some kernels work fine.

    Not sure how to debug.

    #linux #gentoo #btrfs #efi