UEFI Support

[latot]

Hi, its posible the uefi support? actually a lot of laptops have uefi system (and some only have uefi), and for install for example grub it requiere a efi usb.

Thx.

[stauzs]

+1

[jcrben]

@gkovacs maybe at least you could comment on the feasibility and point to resources to look at (including the relevant source code in this repo), in case anyone wants to try to take a stab at this.

[gkovacs]

according to
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Syslinux#Installation_on_UEFI syslinux
does support uefi so it should be possible using the procedure there,
unfortunately I don't have any UEFI hardware to test on. the relevant code
is the unetbootin::runinstusb() method in src/unetbootin/unetbootin.cpp

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[latot]

i can test it, but i only can say if it works or not, because normally when it doesn't works only show black screen or a message of not booteable device.
up to master or make a pr.

Cya.

[latot]

hi, i try search the commented lines in the code, but to much to at least to know what are the relevant to test uefi, its posible make a pr to simplify this?

[ousia]

👍

But if UEFI involves erasing USB contents, please warn the user before (to prevent stupid data loss).

[crroush]

+1 I have a UEFI enabled laptop, I wanted to install Ubuntu 16.04 using unetbootin harddrive mode.
It appears to work, it seems to properly modify the boot.ini, but when I select it from the windows 10 boot menu I get an error that it cannot find \ubnldr.mbr , partition is set to C: and in C:\ubnldr.mbr does exist.
So I am at a loss, as I don't want to use a usb or cd to do this installation. I am happy to troubleshoot this if I am provided some guidance.

[HLFH]

@crroush Use MultiSystem

[crroush]

@HLFH that appears to be 1. in french...but 2. looks like it supports USB only, my issue is that I need to do this without USB or a CD. unetbootin works fine for USB installations, I have done that on other machines, for what I am trying to do I need to do this without using a USB.

[HLFH]

@crroush http://liveusb.info/dotclear/index.php?pages/lang Not only French. Hum. And with your smartphone? https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.softwarebakery.drivedroid&hl=en, but ok, I understand you don't want the LiveUSB method, so good luck.

[spencerthayer]

Will this issue ever be addressed?