February 8, 20224 yr AMD Ryzen 5 5600X | Gigabyte B550 Aorus Pro | Asus Strix GTX 980. I created a boot stick on my MacBook and put it in my desktop. I chose GUI and it started up in the GUI. I only looked around and didn't request a trial key. Shut the machine down. Did some reading over a couple of days and found out the max size of the USB stick, so since the stick I used was 128 GB, I created another one on my desktop (Ubuntu, copied files and used the make_bootable script) on a 8GB stick. Using this stick, I requested a trial key and then booted into the GUI. Except the GUI didn't show up. It goes through the motions like a non-GUI startup, except it just stops. The server did start as I can connect to it from another machine. I retried using the first stick (128 GB) I used since the GUI did work on that one, except now it doesn't want to start up with that stick. I'm assuming because I've created a license on the 8 GB stick. Could it be that I didn't create the 8 GB stick correctly? Is it something else? How can I diagnose this? I did find this post (created ast.conf), but the suggested solution didn't work for me.
February 9, 20224 yr Author 10 hours ago, trurl said: UEFI or Legacy boot? UEFI (saw tutorials using Legacy, but not sure how to set this on my mobo). E: As per your signature, I have attached the diagnostics zip file. tower-diagnostics-20220209-1101.zip Edited February 9, 20224 yr by Aging Orange Attached diagnostics.
February 10, 20224 yr Author On 2/9/2022 at 12:27 AM, trurl said: UEFI or Legacy boot? Is one preferred over the other?
February 10, 20224 yr Community Expert UEFI preferred if it works for you. Try legacy boot to see if gui mode works that way. On 2/9/2022 at 1:03 AM, Aging Orange said: using Legacy, but not sure how to set this on my mobo If there is some place to select UEFI, then change it.
February 10, 20224 yr Author Just now, trurl said: UEFI preferred if it works for you. Try legacy boot to see if gui mode works that way. If there is some place to select UEFI, then change it. Do I need to create a new flash drive for this or can I use the existing one?
February 10, 20224 yr Community Expert Solution 11 minutes ago, Aging Orange said: Do I need to create a new flash drive for this or can I use the existing one? You need to use the same flash drive but configure it for legacy. You can do that from the webUI, Main - Boot Device - Flash - Syslinux Configuration, uncheck UEFI. Or just rename EFI folder on flash to EFI-
February 10, 20224 yr Author 13 minutes ago, trurl said: You need to use the same flash drive but configure it for legacy. You can do that from the webUI, Main - Boot Device - Flash - Syslinux Configuration, uncheck UEFI. Or just rename EFI folder on flash to EFI- Thank you, this worked. For others with a Gigabyte board: if CSM is enabled in BIOS, Legacy boot is supported. If CSM is disabled, only UEFI boot is supported. E: I only had to change the setting from the webUI. Edited February 10, 20224 yr by Aging Orange
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