SURVEY: What's your experience of LL installed in UEFI mode - good, bad or ugly?

[m654321]

I have...
SET-UP:  Win8.1/LL2.8 UEFI dual boot
PC:          Asus G750JS
PROBLEM(S): see Tutorial post#1 Section F, problem3 at https://www.freecinema2022.gq/forums/tutor...y-enabled/
                        Occasional sticking at start-up screen - solution in tutorial applied seems to work, though sometimes may need to repeat it more than once when the 'sticking' arises
LEVEL OF SATISFACTION: good
WORTH IT ?      Yes, only if it really does potentially protect my PC against any malware (e.g. 'rootkits'), otherwise it's use is probably questionable... 

Please  indicate your dual-boot or single-boot Linux Lite UEFI set-up (distribution release used), the PC make/model you run it on, and any problem9s) with it's smooth running, and your level of satisfaction with the set-up and whether you think it's worth the trouble to set-up. 

I'm sure this will be useful for anyone interested in Linux Lite & UEFI
Many thanks

Regards
Mike

[Coastie]

:-[ Don't understand all the details you are requesting. Will help of ASUS, I set this new computer to boot in legacy and installed Linux Lite 2.something. Recently installed 3.0 without problem.

[m654321]

Don't understand all the details you are requesting.

Sorry Coastie that you found my post unclear.  I was just curious to know who had installed LL with UEFI, on what PC, in single LL or Win/LL dual-boot set-up, and finally, whether it worked or not i.e. what difficulties experienced - tell me if that still sounds like gobble-de-gook and I'll change it accordingly... :-[

The reason I'm curious is that the tutorial I posted at https://www.freecinema2022.gq/forums/tutor...y-enabled/ , which represents a transcript of Wani's fast-moving (and at times difficult-to-follow) YouTube video, has received more than 6500 hits, and would like to know what users' experience of LL in UEFI was, assuming they tried it... 

I'm assuming, Coastie, that you choose Legacy either because UEFI didn't work for you, or you went straight for Legacy at the outset?

Thanks for any further feedback Coastie, or from anyone else reading this on any LL UEFI set-up you may have installed...

Regards
Mike

[Coastie]

Sorry Coastie that you found my post unclear.  ... - tell me if that still sounds like gobble-de-gook and I'll change it accordingly. ... I'm assuming, Coastie, that you choose Legacy either because UEFI didn't work for you, or you went straight for Legacy at the outset? ...

Regards
Mike

Not your post, it is just me. Your post and video is more technical than I want to learn.  :-[ I don't think this computer even booted the live DVD much less install LL so I called ASUS for help. Never tried UEFI and have no plans to do so. If I had understood the UEFI problem before I bought this computer, I would probably have bought a computer with Linux already installed and installed LL. Second choice would have been a computer with BIOS instead of UEFI. With ASUS's help, I am very satisfied with this computer now.

[trinidad]

ASUS mo board. My guess would be AMI with Aptio. If that is the case there should be an ESP on board, updates possible, modifications possible. If Aptio is not present windows may be booting from media load. It's worth understanding your situation. These links may help you in future situations with your machine.

https://wiki.debian.org/UEFI

https://ami.com/support/bios-uefi-firmware-support/

Trinidad

[m654321]

ASUS mo board. My guess would be AMI with Aptio. If that is the case there should be an ESP on board, updates possible, modifications possible. If Aptio is not present windows may be booting from media load. It's worth understanding your situation. These links may help you in future situations with your machine.
https://wiki.debian.org/UEFI
https://ami.com/support/bios-uefi-firmware-support/
Trinidad

Trinidad - whose issue are you addressing? m654321's or Coastie's? Do you have experience of  installing LL3.0 in UEFI mode? If you do, did you replace --force with --allow + [command?]; if yes, please give details... thanks

Mike

[tomt]

An article on secure boot which I am sure by now everyone knows how to do. The problem again, is getting secure boot on after install. Just thought I`d throw it out there.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2951559/o...abled.html

My experience, not so good. Problems trying to get secure boot back on and I am not comfortable running with it off though I have no problems with LL when it`s off. Root Kit as we all know is in most cases undetectable and can take full control without your knowledge. Might never happen but why take the chance as it is not easy to remove and a lot of work.

[m654321]

Thanks, but all this can be found in the tutorial I posted previously at https://www.freecinema2022.gq/forums/tutor...y-enabled/

The point of my thread here is to find out how many installed LL in UEFI (using this tutorial) and whether it worked well for them.  I am particularly interested in experiences with LL3.0, either as a single boot or dual-boot set-up with a Windows OS.  My experience is that it works well for any LL2 series/Windows 7 OS or 7+,  but I was unable to get it to work for a LL3/Windows OS set-up due to deprecation of the --force command...  I am no expert in Linux command-line or in Linux more generally, by any measure, hence I was unable to sort out this problem by myself... do any of the experts in the forum have any clues to offer on this?

Regards
Mike

[tomt]

Sorry. Did not bother to try it. Perhaps I posted on the wrong thread.

[tomt]

Sorry Mike, I did not try it. Perhaps I posted on the wrong thread. This is in the instructions in LL for booting into LL with UEFI installed so for someone coming from windows and new to Linux (1) they would probably want to the newest version and (2) if they read the info manual and happen to have a newer computer this is what they will find.

Currently, we do not support UEFI installations. You have two choices if that is how Windows is currently installed.
Re-install Windows in BIOS/Legacy-mode first. (Do not attempt this without seeking help on a Windows forum!) Then install Linux Lite.
Look for another Linux distro that does have UEFI support.