UEFI booting and tools

UEFI settings and documents

• https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UEFI
  • Thisdocuments cover UEFI BIOS settings so are of interest to Windows and Linux users
  • BIOS settings and tools for UEFI this is a MUST read for solving all UEFI boot issues

1. ) Set you machine to UEFI PXE boot
   • Consult: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UEFI
   • Make sure your system has PXE boot ROM enabled and ipv4 network stack enable, network boot order UEFI first and legacy second
   • Note: when you UEFI PXE boot on Asimov you will see UEFI in menu title a after network booting - or - BIOS if UEFI booting failed
   • Be sure to pick the correct UEFI partition for booting after imaging (done in the BIOS) as imaging changes these.

Linux

• The GRAD PC TWIKI page documents what an image has, post install steps and problem solving for each image
• Clonzilla related documents
• Consult https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UEFI
  • BIOS settings and tools for UEFI this is a MUST read for solving all UEFI boot issues

boot-repair documents

• https://sourceforge.net/p/boot-repair-cd/home/Home/
  • shows how to make a bootable usb boot-repair image

related tools

• http://rufus.akeo.ie/?locale=en RUFUS - tool to make USB boot-repair images

boot-repair

• boot-repair is a Linux based tool that can manage UEFI booting and fix booting issues after imaging
• install boot-repair: - open a terminal and run these commands
  • sudo bash
  • apt-add-repository ppa:yannubuntu/boot-repair
  • apt-get update
  • apt-get install boot-repair

boot-repair usage

• run boot-repair as root
• All of the defaults are find for CS imaged machines with UEFI boot
  • you may optionally click on advanced settings to see extra options
• Let it run - ignore secure boot warnings
• reboot system
  • You should now see the Linux EFI boot grub menu you may pick any of the WIndows menus (they all work the same) - or - Ubuntu

boot-repair

Windows

Make EUFI bootable USB from Windows ISO

• We assume you have the ISO image
  • For Home users you can download here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/software-download/windows10ISO
  • For University of Waterloo see https://strobe.uwaterloo.ca/ist/saw/webstore/index.php
• Download Rufus
  • https://rufus.akeo.ie/
  • The source code is on github https://github.com/pbatard/rufus
• Windows 10 EUFI settings
  • Partition Scheme"GPT partition scheme for UEFI"
  • Browse to you Windows 10 ISO image
• Screen Shot