Hi,
I got a Packard Bell easy note ME69BMP (ENME69BMP). I am trying to get it to boot ***anything*** from USB at all. The goal would be to put some kind of Linux / Ubuntu on it but i got much less ambutious. It comes with Win8 , with secure boot eneabled. The BIOS is a InsydeH20 (InsydeH2O) Rev 5.0 showing upper right corner.
I am aware of the BIOS / EFI / UEFI and the secure boot situation.
Here is what I tried so far:
- trying to set the BIOS to legacy (CSM?). But the BIOS menu does not offer anything like this. The manufacturer support told me to press F6 to switch to legacy mode - which the Netbook does not have. :-)
- all I can do is swtiching secure boot on and of (after setting the bios password).
- when rebooting Win8 (holding the shift key) I can select an USB stick to boot from. However: when having added nothing to the NVRAM , the BIOS complains that it does not have an USB boot option (?). This changed when adding s.th. to the UEFI secure boot menu.
- I can also add a trusted boot file to the NVRAM (a.g. bootx64.efi from an Ubuntu distribution). This results in the disk/file show up in the boot manager when pressing F12. However, the BIOS still does load Win8.
- I tried different USB sticks. I tried FAT formatted and FAT32 formatted sticks. I tried Ubunto 64bit 12.04.2 13.04 and latest. I booted these sticks on a (non UEFI) PC, they work (in no UEFI and non secure mode though). I tried UNetbootin, LinuxLiveCreator and also putting the files from Win8 directly from an .iso to the stick.
- I converted an USB stick from MBR to GPT. neither booted.
- I tried getting into the advanced options of the BIOS by: pressing A after / before pressing F2. By pressing Ctrl-F1 in the BIOS. No success.
- I tried connecting a USB CDROM. It does also not boot from there (but here the CDs are most likely NOT UEFI compatible)
Here are my questions:
1) what might I have done wrong preparing a UEFI bootable (secure) USB stick? In other words: what is a ***foolproof*** way to create a UEFI capable stick (to make sure this is not a source of faults)?
2) what could I do to get the BIOS to offer legacy / CSM mode / advanced options? (flashing a modyfied BIOS might work, but I didnot find a suitable one yet)
3) any other suggestions?
I really read a lot: newspaper, Internet... I just am out of ideas.
Bye & thanks for any help!! Uli
I got a Packard Bell easy note ME69BMP (ENME69BMP). I am trying to get it to boot ***anything*** from USB at all. The goal would be to put some kind of Linux / Ubuntu on it but i got much less ambutious. It comes with Win8 , with secure boot eneabled. The BIOS is a InsydeH20 (InsydeH2O) Rev 5.0 showing upper right corner.
I am aware of the BIOS / EFI / UEFI and the secure boot situation.
Here is what I tried so far:
- trying to set the BIOS to legacy (CSM?). But the BIOS menu does not offer anything like this. The manufacturer support told me to press F6 to switch to legacy mode - which the Netbook does not have. :-)
- all I can do is swtiching secure boot on and of (after setting the bios password).
- when rebooting Win8 (holding the shift key) I can select an USB stick to boot from. However: when having added nothing to the NVRAM , the BIOS complains that it does not have an USB boot option (?). This changed when adding s.th. to the UEFI secure boot menu.
- I can also add a trusted boot file to the NVRAM (a.g. bootx64.efi from an Ubuntu distribution). This results in the disk/file show up in the boot manager when pressing F12. However, the BIOS still does load Win8.
- I tried different USB sticks. I tried FAT formatted and FAT32 formatted sticks. I tried Ubunto 64bit 12.04.2 13.04 and latest. I booted these sticks on a (non UEFI) PC, they work (in no UEFI and non secure mode though). I tried UNetbootin, LinuxLiveCreator and also putting the files from Win8 directly from an .iso to the stick.
- I converted an USB stick from MBR to GPT. neither booted.
- I tried getting into the advanced options of the BIOS by: pressing A after / before pressing F2. By pressing Ctrl-F1 in the BIOS. No success.
- I tried connecting a USB CDROM. It does also not boot from there (but here the CDs are most likely NOT UEFI compatible)
Here are my questions:
1) what might I have done wrong preparing a UEFI bootable (secure) USB stick? In other words: what is a ***foolproof*** way to create a UEFI capable stick (to make sure this is not a source of faults)?
2) what could I do to get the BIOS to offer legacy / CSM mode / advanced options? (flashing a modyfied BIOS might work, but I didnot find a suitable one yet)
3) any other suggestions?
I really read a lot: newspaper, Internet... I just am out of ideas.
Bye & thanks for any help!! Uli