On 1/3/23 18:22, john faulk wrote:
> Have you tried going into the bios at all?
Yes, I have been all through the bios. I checked the boot order which is:
CD (which the pc doesn't have)
USB
Network (which I removed)
There is another page that also lists the internal hard drive.
The boot options are: Legacy and Secure Boot which appears to be a
Windows thing. There is a tab for UEFI drivers. If that is selected it
changes to a page that says I will be directed to a page for a third
party rom also accessible with F3. If that is selected it changes to a
page with only the option: EXIT which reboots the pc. I assume the rom
is not installed.
Best regards,
Fred
>
> On Tue, Jan 3, 2023, 7:18 PM Fred <fred@???
> <mailto:fred@blakemfg.com>> wrote:
>
> On 1/3/23 15:54, Antony Stone wrote:
> > On Tuesday 03 January 2023 at 22:28:41, Fred wrote:
> >
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> I bought a "refurbished" HP EliteDesk 800 G2 mini-pc with the
> intention
> >> of running Chimaera on it. However, it will only legacy boot
> and the
> >> .iso install files for Chimaera on the USB stick are .efi. Is
> all hope
> >> lost or is there a work around?
> >
> > Sorry, but I don't understand the problem.
> >
> > I have at least four machines here which have no concept of UEFI
> - they boot
> > using BIOS only, and yet they (start and) run Chimaera quite happily.
> >
> > So, when you attempt to install Chimaera on this EliteDesk
> machine, what
> > exactly is the problem you run into?
> >
> >
> > Antony.
> >
> The pc sees the usb stick as it turns on the led and at times makes it
> flash. However, what it does is snoop around the local network
> until it
> finds the gateway then it downloads Windows 10 and starts setup for
> that. If I don't have the Ethernet cable attached it eventually brings
> up a screen with several remote servers and allows one to be selected
> but it won't continue without the network.
>
> I used dd to write this file:
>
> devuan_chimaera_4.0.0_amd64_server.iso
>
> to the usb stick. I can mount it and see the files:
>
> There is: /efi/boot/bootia32.efi
> and: /efi/boot/bootx64.efi
>
> What can I check now?
>
> Best regards,
> Fred
>
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Re: [DNG] legacy boot Chimaera?
