phony-wreck3067 Posted March 15 Share Posted March 15 it automatically goes to bios and when i restart it boots straight to bios again. i used a live usb of fedora and that booted instantly. what could be the issue with the flash drive. here is a screenshot of the files, i plugged the drive into my windows machine. Quote Link to comment
Solution JonathanM Posted March 15 Solution Share Posted March 15 Rename the EFI- folder to just EFI Quote Link to comment
phony-wreck3067 Posted March 15 Author Share Posted March 15 and then replug it into nas and try to boot? Quote Link to comment
JonathanM Posted March 15 Share Posted March 15 2 minutes ago, phony-wreck3067 said: and then replug it into nas and try to boot? Yep Quote Link to comment
itimpi Posted March 15 Share Posted March 15 1 minute ago, phony-wreck3067 said: and then replug it into nas and try to boot? Yes. The symptoms you describe are typical of a system trying to boot in UEFI mode without the UEFI option being enabled on the flash drove. Quote Link to comment
phony-wreck3067 Posted March 15 Author Share Posted March 15 that worked! why was it like efi- in the first place, it booted fine on old motherboard 2 days ago. Quote Link to comment
itimpi Posted March 15 Share Posted March 15 1 minute ago, phony-wreck3067 said: why was it like efi- in the first place, it booted fine on old motherboard 2 days ago The old motherboard probably booted in legacy mode rather than UEFI mode. Quote Link to comment
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