Re: Weird behaviour of Intel Nuc's

> On 17 Nov 2014, at 9:00 am, [email protected] wrote:
> 
>> I’ve booted ubuntu, suse and arch on the atom, i3 and i5 versions. It’s easy but fiddly …
>> 
>> First start with a blank disk. I dd if=/dev/zero because the efi partition is a
>> bitch. I *have* dualbooted Win7 and linux but it is really not easy (I do the same
>> install multiple times, it sometimes works)
>> I’ve read, but not tried, that you must install from mem stick, cd rom will not work.
> 
> The install wasn't really the problem (once I got a version of Linux
> and the BIOS updated) - just cloning it.
> 
> I think it came down to the UEFI stuff not liking being cloned.


I have dd’d A disk in and out succesfully but even 2 samsung 120G flash disks are not identical and dd did not work.
The whole EFI business is tricky, try lots to get a solution or don’t be innovative. The EFI scheme is not the same across motherboards - my iMac, ASUS and NUCs all are different and need different care. caveat emptor.
James
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