I'm attempting to boot Ghost for Linux 0.63 on my System76 Gazelle
laptop, and each time I try I just get this message:
SecureBoot is disabled.
Booting from 'SanDisk Cruzer Glide' failed; verify it contains a
64-bit UEFI OS.
Press any key to continue booting...
"SanDisk Cruzer Glide" is the name of the 32GB USB flash drive I"m
using. When I press a key, I just get sent back to my laptop's menu for
selecting a disk to boot from.
I've tried burning both images on the USB stick, with the same results.
Am I missing something?
Regards,
Russell Hanneken
rhanneken@pobox.com
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I'm attempting to boot Ghost for Linux 0.63 on my System76 Gazelle
laptop, and each time I try I just get this message:
SecureBoot is disabled.
Booting from 'SanDisk Cruzer Glide' failed; verify it contains
a
64-bit UEFI OS.
Press any key to continue booting...
"SanDisk Cruzer Glide" is the name of the 32GB USB flash drive I"m
using. When I press a key, I just get sent back to my laptop's menu for
selecting a disk to boot from.
I've tried burning both images on the USB stick, with the same results.
Am I missing something?
Regards,
Russell Hanneken
rhanneken@pobox.com
Just to clarify. The zip file contains two files.
One is an iso image that can be burned to a CD or copied
to an USB directly. It uses syslinux boot loader, but
doesn't have any UEFI support.
The other file is an IMG file, and has to be copied using
dd directly to the flash/usb. It has a 64M GPT partition
that contains both the grub4dos 64bit BIOS loader and
the grub4dos-efi 64bit loader. So after copying it to the
USB it should be able to boot from USB. On my one Dell
machine, it allows selecting the BIOS regular partition or
selecting the UEFI partition. I've also tried booting both
versions using Virtual Box with no problem.
Does it show any error message?
Can you mount the flash after it is burned on another
machine and see the partition with the files?
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Michael D. Setzer II - Computer Science Instructor
(Retired)
mailto:mikes@guam.net
mailto:msetzerii@gmail.com
Guam - Where America's Day Begins
G4L Disk Imaging Project maintainer http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l/
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I just realized that my laptop has something called coreboot. From the
GitHub page:
coreboot is a Free Software project aimed at replacing the
proprietary firmware (BIOS/UEFI) found in most computers.
I'm guessing this is not supported?
Went to web page, and main page doesn't explain much,
but does mention secure, so not sure if they have some
special implementation of secure? Sent a message to the
email to see if there might be something that needs to be
done with either its setup or with the g4l or kernel
config.
+------------------------------------------------------------+
Michael D. Setzer II - Computer Science Instructor
(Retired)
mailto:mikes@guam.net
mailto:msetzerii@gmail.com
Guam - Where America's Day Begins
G4L Disk Imaging Project maintainer http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l/
+------------------------------------------------------------+
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I just realized that my laptop has something called coreboot. From the
GitHub page:
coreboot is a Free Software project aimed at replacing the
proprietary firmware (BIOS/UEFI) found in most computers.
I'm guessing this is not supported?
Question: What is the OS on the notebook?
G4L can be added directly to grub2 boot menu with
Fedora and probable many other linux versions?
cat /etc/grub.d/40_custom
!/bin/sh
exec tail -n +3 $0
This file provides an easy way to add custom menu entries. Simply type the
menu entries you want to add after this comment. Be careful not to change
the 'exec tail' line above.
menuentry G4L_Version_0.64_video_800x600 {
set gfxpayload=800x600x16,800x600
linux /bz6x3.6 root=/dev/ram0 telnetd=yes
initrd /ramdisk.lzma
}
Just copying the kernel file (bz6x3.5 from 0.63, now
having bz6x3.6 with starting of 0.64) to the /boot
directory along with the ramdisk.lzma.
Then running grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg
That then adds the g4l as a boot menu option, so no need
for cd or flash.
Again, don't know if your OS is linux or Windows or
something else??
Had a user once that got new machines that dropped
BIOS boot, so wouldn't load the older versions, but was
able to pull disk from new machines and connect them to
an older version, and do the imaging. Was a Dell
machine, where the previous batches supported BIOS
boot, but this one version different was dropped by
DELL??
Hopefully, will get some reply from coreboot in next few
days.
Just got hit with a Cat 4 typhoon and was without power
for a week. Still only half of Island has power, so lots of
things on and off. But will see what I can do.
+------------------------------------------------------------+
Michael D. Setzer II - Computer Science Instructor (Retired)
mailto:mikes@guam.net
mailto:msetzerii@gmail.com
Guam - Where America's Day Begins
G4L Disk Imaging Project maintainer http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l/
+------------------------------------------------------------+
Don't have popos, so not sure if this would show how it
could be added.
It appears that just copying the kernel and ramdisk.lzma
to the boot directory might work after making a option
that would point to them?
+------------------------------------------------------------+
Michael D. Setzer II - Computer Science Instructor
(Retired)
mailto:mikes@guam.net
mailto:msetzerii@gmail.com
Guam - Where America's Day Begins
G4L Disk Imaging Project maintainer http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l/
+------------------------------------------------------------+
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I'm attempting to boot Ghost for Linux 0.63 on my System76 Gazelle
laptop, and each time I try I just get this message:
"SanDisk Cruzer Glide" is the name of the 32GB USB flash drive I"m
using. When I press a key, I just get sent back to my laptop's menu for
selecting a disk to boot from.
I've tried burning both images on the USB stick, with the same results.
Am I missing something?
Regards,
Russell Hanneken
rhanneken@pobox.com
On 6 Jun 2023 at 20:54, Russell Hanneken wrote:
To: "[g4l:discussion] " 408763@discussion.g4l.p.re.sourceforge.net
From: "Russell Hanneken" russellhanneken@users.sourceforge.net
Send reply to: "[g4l:discussion] " 408763@discussion.g4l.p.re.sourceforge.net
Subject: [g4l:discussion] Can't boot 0.63
Date sent: Tue, 06 Jun 2023 20:54:35 -0000
Just to clarify. The zip file contains two files.
One is an iso image that can be burned to a CD or copied
to an USB directly. It uses syslinux boot loader, but
doesn't have any UEFI support.
The other file is an IMG file, and has to be copied using
dd directly to the flash/usb. It has a 64M GPT partition
that contains both the grub4dos 64bit BIOS loader and
the grub4dos-efi 64bit loader. So after copying it to the
USB it should be able to boot from USB. On my one Dell
machine, it allows selecting the BIOS regular partition or
selecting the UEFI partition. I've also tried booting both
versions using Virtual Box with no problem.
Does it show any error message?
Can you mount the flash after it is burned on another
machine and see the partition with the files?
+------------------------------------------------------------+
Michael D. Setzer II - Computer Science Instructor
(Retired)
mailto:mikes@guam.net
mailto:msetzerii@gmail.com
Guam - Where America's Day Begins
G4L Disk Imaging Project maintainer
http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l/
+------------------------------------------------------------+
For the img file, I used the dd command that was in the documentation. For the iso, I used Popsicle.
I can mount and see the USB drive with the iso image on it.
I don't know if it makes a difference, but this is the laptop I have, and this is the firmware that it runs.
I just realized that my laptop has something called coreboot. From the GitHub page:
I'm guessing this is not supported?
On 6 Jun 2023 at 22:26, Russell Hanneken wrote:
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From: "Russell Hanneken" russellhanneken@users.sourceforge.net
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Subject: [g4l:discussion] Can't boot 0.63
Date sent: Tue, 06 Jun 2023 22:26:29 -0000
Went to web page, and main page doesn't explain much,
but does mention secure, so not sure if they have some
special implementation of secure? Sent a message to the
email to see if there might be something that needs to be
done with either its setup or with the g4l or kernel
config.
+------------------------------------------------------------+
Michael D. Setzer II - Computer Science Instructor
(Retired)
mailto:mikes@guam.net
mailto:msetzerii@gmail.com
Guam - Where America's Day Begins
G4L Disk Imaging Project maintainer
http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l/
+------------------------------------------------------------+
On 6 Jun 2023 at 22:26, Russell Hanneken wrote:
To: "[g4l:discussion] " 408763@discussion.g4l.p.re.sourceforge.net
From: "Russell Hanneken" russellhanneken@users.sourceforge.net
Send reply to: "[g4l:discussion] " 408763@discussion.g4l.p.re.sourceforge.net
Subject: [g4l:discussion] Can't boot 0.63
Date sent: Tue, 06 Jun 2023 22:26:29 -0000
Question: What is the OS on the notebook?
G4L can be added directly to grub2 boot menu with
Fedora and probable many other linux versions?
cat /etc/grub.d/40_custom
!/bin/sh
exec tail -n +3 $0
This file provides an easy way to add custom menu entries. Simply type the
menu entries you want to add after this comment. Be careful not to change
the 'exec tail' line above.
menuentry G4L_Version_0.64_video_800x600 {
set gfxpayload=800x600x16,800x600
linux /bz6x3.6 root=/dev/ram0 telnetd=yes
initrd /ramdisk.lzma
}
Just copying the kernel file (bz6x3.5 from 0.63, now
having bz6x3.6 with starting of 0.64) to the /boot
directory along with the ramdisk.lzma.
Then running grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg
That then adds the g4l as a boot menu option, so no need
for cd or flash.
Again, don't know if your OS is linux or Windows or
something else??
Had a user once that got new machines that dropped
BIOS boot, so wouldn't load the older versions, but was
able to pull disk from new machines and connect them to
an older version, and do the imaging. Was a Dell
machine, where the previous batches supported BIOS
boot, but this one version different was dropped by
DELL??
Hopefully, will get some reply from coreboot in next few
days.
Just got hit with a Cat 4 typhoon and was without power
for a week. Still only half of Island has power, so lots of
things on and off. But will see what I can do.
+------------------------------------------------------------+
Michael D. Setzer II - Computer Science Instructor (Retired)
mailto:mikes@guam.net
mailto:msetzerii@gmail.com
Guam - Where America's Day Begins
G4L Disk Imaging Project maintainer
http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l/
+------------------------------------------------------------+
I'm using Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS, which is a distribution downstream from Ubuntu.
Thanks for the workaround; I'll see if I can use it! Anyway, stay safe.
Apparently the current version of Pop!_OS uses systemd-boot rather than grub.
On 7 Jun 2023 at 15:25, Russell Hanneken wrote:
To: "[g4l:discussion] " 408763@discussion.g4l.p.re.sourceforge.net
From: "Russell Hanneken" russellhanneken@users.sourceforge.net
Send reply to: "[g4l:discussion] " 408763@discussion.g4l.p.re.sourceforge.net
Subject: [g4l:discussion] Re: Can't boot 0.63
Date sent: Wed, 07 Jun 2023 15:25:28 -0000
https://superuser.com/questions/1583591/systemd-permanently-add-boot-loader-options-popos
Don't have popos, so not sure if this would show how it
could be added.
It appears that just copying the kernel and ramdisk.lzma
to the boot directory might work after making a option
that would point to them?
+------------------------------------------------------------+
Michael D. Setzer II - Computer Science Instructor
(Retired)
mailto:mikes@guam.net
mailto:msetzerii@gmail.com
Guam - Where America's Day Begins
G4L Disk Imaging Project maintainer
http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l/
+------------------------------------------------------------+