UEFI USB booting in firestarter

[STiAT]

Hey guys,

i had siduction installed a while ago on my laptop, but that one I borrowed to a friend.

Now I try to install it on another system (alianware x51) since it's the distribution I'm personally most satisfied with.

First of all: kubuntu, opensuse, sabayon, debian - all their images boot from USB (I'm on debian stable at the moment ). Siduction does not, but I want siduction back .

Now, what did I do? I did a simple

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# dd if=siduction-13.1.0-firestarter-kde-amd64-201305211844.iso of=/dev/sdb bs=4M

After that I rebooted and expected siduction to boot. I was wrong.

Now, KDE finds the partitions on the disk - but parted?

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(parted) print list
Error: Invalid partition table - recursive partition on /dev/sdb.        
parted: invalid token: list
Ignore/Cancel? i                                                          
Model:  USB DISK 2.0 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdb: 32.0GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos

Number  Start  End  Size  Type  File system  Flags

Can anyone tell me how to boot siduction installation on uefi? This damn bios - at least in the version I got - does not support legacy mode ....

If it isn't possible to install siduction on UEFI, can I upgrade some way of debian stable to siduction?

Of course I verified the md5sum of the iso image ;-).

[STiAT]

PS: the old image at least did boot ... there I had other problems, but the laptop I could switch to legacy.

[dibl]

This might be 2 different problems.

(1) If parted or fdisk cannot see the partition table on the USB stick correctly, that is a problem.  There is nothing about a siduction ISO image that would change the partition table on the stick.

(2) UEFI -- I am no expert.  But whatever BIOS you have, if it will allow some other distro to boot from USB, then there is nothing about siduction that would refuse to boot.

I think you need to look hard at that USB stick partition table, and also make sure you set the "boot" flag on the partition.

[michaa7]

Is this a dual boot laptop?

As far as I remember UEFI on amd64 *has* to provide legacy mode / disable secure boot.

siduction isn't yet ready for secure boot, but will be within this year ...