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Do you need a UEFI ISO image to boot Linux?
A UEFI bootable ISO image, a FAT formatted USB drive and a machine that runs Linux. No, we don’t need a UEFI installation of Linux (which may be a chicken and egg situation), a traditional Linux VM like in VirtualBox is fine. 2.1. Creating the binary
How to create UEFI only bootable USB Live media?
Every standard UEFI firmware should look into \\EFI\\BOOT\\ for a file named boot {arch}.efi, so create the folders on the USB drive and copy the image we just created to this location. Other architectures instead of x64 are possible, but let’s keep it simple with x64/amd64.
How to install UEFI Linux on a USB stick?
After you dd the ISO file on the stick there are 2 partitions on your usb stick. One of them is EFI / UEFI. Insert the stick in your operational Linux machine and invoke fdisk (sudo required). Lets assume your stick is /dev/sdf. You see sdf1 linux and sdf2 EFI on the stick.
What kind of file system does UEFI legacy boot use?
The first partition will be formatted as FAT32. This is a file system supported by both the boot loader used for legacy boot and directly by UEFI systems, which need to load Clonezilla Live from it. The second partition is formatted as exFAT, which is a lightweight file system supported for reading and writing by all modern operating systems.
Can a USB stick be used to boot UEFI?
Since we want to create a USB stick that will be able to boot a UEFI system, we will require an ISO that can do this. The ISO requires a special EFI bootloader. At the time of writing this article, not many Linux distributions had an ISO available that contains the special EFI bootloader.
Can you boot both ways with UEFI live media?
Having live media that can boot both ways can be a problem when installing Ubuntu onto currently available Windows 8 computers. In other words the key advantage to creating UEFI-only bootable USB live media is: You know that it definitely booted and installed via UEFI.
Are there any Linux distros that have UEFI support?
Tested versions are recorded because older versions might not have UEFI support. The distro is under development (Alpha stage) at the time of writing. Flaunts the beautiful Budgie desktop. 655MB ISO size. Lightweight and provides the Openbox desktop environment. “dd” the ISO to a USB flash drive to make a bootable flash drive.