[Coco] Drivewire/Superdriver feature request, and questions

[David Gettle]

ON the Linux issue with my laptop...

It will boot the distro disk, but if I attempt to install it the system
locks up about 1/2 way through the process I actually let the laptop sit
for 5 hours and it never got past the 50% mark.

So I don't run Linux on the laptop.

I have a desktop I run Linux and Win7 in with DriveWire So for me at least
it is a non-issue. The Laptop is my work computer, the win7/linux/VCC
desktop is one of my home computers I also have a Tandy Sensation, T1000
with internal hard card, and the CoCo3 system.

Again this problem is solved. the cards were set for the same address. The
Clock is now removed from the TC^3.

On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 1:33 PM, John W. Linville <linville at tuxdriver.com>
wrote:

> On Thu, May 07, 2015 at 01:18:45PM -0400, Richard E. Crislip wrote:
> > On Tue, 5 May 2015 17:56:05 -0400
> > Aaron Wolfe <aawolfe at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > A live cd is a very good idea, no need to go to the trouble of
> > > installing Linux just for this.  There may be ways still to image the
> > > zip disk with Windows too, I just don't know them  (but I know Linux
> > > can image anything).  dd is a common Unix utility but I don't know
> > > that every Linux flavor in the world includes it.  Most live disks
> > > probably do, or contain some similar tool.
>
> <snip>
>
> > The problem is, if his lappy is very new, EFI or more specifically
> > UEFI. This is replacing BIOS and it will not allow Linux to install or
> > even do a live boot because Linux doesn't not have Microsoft approved
> > Certificates. He will have to get into BIOS and turn UEFI off before
> > that can happen 8-/. I have a two year old Toshiba laptop and I fight
> > this all the time.
>
> That is extremely incorrect.  I have no idea what your particular
> situation is, but every "normal" Linux distro solved this problem
> years ago.  The technique involves having a Microsoft-signed bootloader
> that loads the actual kernel.  As a member of the Technical Advisory
> Board of the Linux Foundation, I am well aware of the issue and the
> efforts that were taken to resolve it.
>
> Just to repeat -- there is _no_ reason that anyone should be unable
> to boot a modern Linux distribution (e.g. Fedora, Ubuntu, SuSE, etc)
> on a UEFI laptop.  If you are having trouble doing so, then you should
> seek support from your distribution of choice.
>
> John
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