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Now try to install arch to a bootable USB stick from your UEFI booted system, and see all hell break loose. I boot UEFI, but it's just so bloody cumbersome and

Now try to install arch to a bootable USB stick from your UEFI booted system, and see all hell break loose. I boot UEFI, but it's just so bloody cumbersome and fragile. The entire concept of having boot configuration in NVRAM is terrible.

digi_owl 9y ago
Even more fun when OEMs put what should be read only ROM variables in NVRAM, and they get nuked...
jonnypickel 9y ago
Not to turn this into a support thread but this weekend I tried to install Arch on a new, UEFI-enabled laptop and I've been stymied so far because I can't get the laptop to recognize my Live USB. I've built it with Rufus, dd for Windows, and Easy2Boot all with the same result (no bootable device) even though it works on another machine. Could it be because I created the USB on a PC using UEFI?
- majewsky 9y ago
  Huh? I just `dd` the official image onto a USB drive and it works 100% of the time, with various UEFI-using machines. (Except for that one Gigabyte mainboard which I returned upon finding out that its v1 firmware will only boot Windows 8.1. Not even Windows 8.0. There was a firmware update that fixed the issue, but without a bootable OS, applying it is a chicken-and-egg problem.)
  - jonnypickel 9y ago
    Well then, I guess my problem likely lies elsewhere. Thanks for the reply. :) And that has to be the strangest "feature" I've ever heard of from a hardware firm. Was it maybe purpose-built for a bulk order of machines that were going to be pre-loaded with Win8?