Hey all, We've developed our own microserver platform sitting on top of CentOS 5.4. We deploy them in many locations and normally use netbooks for this purpose. This has worked fine for years, except most netbooks have started to disappear (in Australia). The lowest price hardware I found the other day was the ASUS F201E (X201E in USA). It is the right size at the right price... but it runs on UEFI Bios. This has caused me to burn hours trying to figure what is going on until someone pointed me to: CentOS-6.3-x86_64-minimal-EFI.iso - which worked fine (except no LAN drivers for this device are present - damnit). As we roll our own ISO... I want to re-build our platform on top of CentOS 6.4 - or something current, but while the OS isn't an issue... the EFI aspect is... and I can't seem to find out how to roll and ISO with EFI support. Does anyone know of a doc out there which might be able to assist me with getting something going? ...Skeeve *Skeeve Stevens - *eintellego Networks Pty Ltd skeeve at eintellegonetworks.com ; www.eintellegonetworks.com Phone: 1300 239 038; Cell +61 (0)414 753 383 ; skype://skeeve facebook.com/eintellegonetworks ; <http://twitter.com/networkceoau> linkedin.com/in/skeeve twitter.com/networkceoau ; blog: www.network-ceo.net The Experts Who The Experts Call Juniper - Cisco - Cloud
Skeeve Stevens wrote:> Hey all, > > We've developed our own microserver platform sitting on top of CentOS 5.4. > We deploy them in many locations and normally use netbooks for this > purpose. This has worked fine for years, except most netbooks have > started to disappear (in Australia).But, don't you want an I$$$Tablet? You don't need a keyboard, or....> > The lowest price hardware I found the other day was the ASUS F201E (X201E > in USA). It is the right size at the right price... but it runs on UEFI > Bios.<snip> Question: my stepson and I just got a new m/b, and in the BIOS, there's an option in, I think, advanced (this is AMI BIOS on a Gigabyte board), that allows you to choose UEFI, or non-EFI. Have you looked for that? mark
On 03/13/2013 01:30 PM, Skeeve Stevens wrote: This has caused me to burn hours trying to figure what is going on until> someone pointed me to: CentOS-6.3-x86_64-minimal-EFI.iso - which worked > fine (except no LAN drivers for this device are present - damnit).In 6.4 - the standard DVD's are EFI capable now, as well as the minimal ISO ( but not the netinstall ). There is also the efi image which can be used to boot UEFI instances from USB drives. All this is already there and functional> As we roll our own ISO... I want to re-build our platform on top of CentOS > 6.4 - or something current, but while the OS isn't an issue... the EFI > aspect is... and I can't seem to find out how to roll and ISO with EFI > support.What sort of content are you adding in there ? If we can make that work with the CentOS-Plus side of things, I'd be happy to roll the content into a CentOS-Plus/iso - KB -- Karanbir Singh +44-207-0999389 | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh GnuPG Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc