Hello there!
I have been trying to add UEFI support to my HP Microserver Gen8 and came across the 2020 version here with REFIND. Unfortunately I have not been able to make it work and was hoping to get some assistance debugging it. at first no matter what I did I only booted to a white blinking underscore. I went out and bought a new USB drive so I could try another one since it seems to have helped others and now I have managed to move a bit past, on on boot it goes to a white blinking underscore, then a quick flash of red text that says BErrorart! (as far as I can read the quick flash) and then it goes to a red blinking underscore. Any advice what might be wrong and what I could try out?

It looks like the mbr/pbr part is not written correctly to the usb stick. What you can try is to format the usb drive yourself with diskpart ( be careful and please check twice to use the right drive ) and the commands from the guide. After nights, and different tested duet compilations from noInk, of testing it can be happen that the gui tool place the pbr part on a different place when the drive is completely prepared from the tool instead of using diskpart this prevents booting my system.

But don't get panic. Can you check under bootice > ( Destination Disk your usb drive ) Parts Manage the Start LBA . Then close the window, Sector edit > Sector 0 ( look for Duet ) and the Sector Number from Start LBA and look for "Efil"

The v2015 work?

Thank you for your reply. With the previous drive I had actually used used the command line version in addition to the GUI version, but since you mentioned it I tried it with the new drive, and I tried both GUI and command line with the 2015 version too. Unfortunately I could not use diskutil to format the drive because it is larger than 32GB so I tried twice, once formatted by Rufus and once by HP Format Tool. Nothing made a difference.

Checking with Bootice I can see that the start LBA is at 63 and looking at boot sector 0 I find DUET towards the bottom and looking at boot sector 63 I find Efil someplace in the middle. This was checked on the 2020 version. Still does the same thing, any advice what I could do next? Can I enable some logging so I can see where it fails?

Sorry for late reply, I need to figure out similar problems with the bootloader because i've switched from usb drive to harddrive. There are another option, or 2. create manually a 100 or 200 MB partition on the usb drive. The Guitool from NoInk can handle this. Alternative: create a bootable usb pen drive with the BDUtility then you need to rename the sectors to match with Duet or rename the efildr to the called loader from the pbr part.( MBUtility created bootdisk )

edit: s*it I forgot the screenshots look in attach working mbr+pbr allign at 2048

No worries for the late reply, I am happy someone is trying to work with me to get this working. I tried your two options, the first one was making a 256MB partition on the USB drive, and then used the GUI tool with every option except clean (because that would delete the partition), unfortunately the same issue still happened.

I then tried BDUtility, first I tried it just with Clover to see if that boots at least, but it just booted up to a number 6 displayed on the screen and a blinking underscore, all in white colour. Next I tried to rename the Efildr20 to boot and another copy to boot6 and another copy to boot7 which where the 3 files added by BDUtility (I though renaming files would be better than editing the sectors to begin with), but all I got was it booted to a red screen with lots of hex codes and the message division by zero.

I am completely at a loss at why it isn't working.

So I have some updates, I have now tried Clover, OpenCore, and the one here in addition to the original Rod version of using syslinux and installing tianocore. I got furthest along with the original one where I get the text ABCE and Welcome to EFI World in red text on the screen. I tried to add REFIND to it, but it just ended up in a blinking red underscore.

Just to make sure my machine can boot I tried installing Grub on the USB flash drive and that worked, booted up fine to the Grub shell. If I tried to chainload the EfiLdr20 file from Grub I just ended up getting some weird symbols on my screen in a blue background. So seems like booting the DUET works, it just doesn't run on my machine. Any advice how to debug this issue?

For some reason, my USBSetup.exe is stuck on "Wait..." message after i choose BOOT option, and nothing else happens. My USB drive is 1gb JetFlash TS1GJFV30 USB Device. The process uses 0-1% CPU. Should i go for cmd method? I'm doing this to install Windows 7 on gpt drive, under bios board

upd: tried with another flash drive, with the size of 8gb, still doesnt work

After trying many methods across the internet this frankenstein build worked for me on Windows 10 20H2 with a Samsung 970 EVO Plus NVMe, ASUS P6X58D Premium motherboard and an AMD R9 290 card. I moved from Clover method to this.

I've used an old 2GB microSD card and this would not work through a multi card reader (readers that have multiple card slots). You have to use one with a single slot or a plain old USB flash drive. Before doing any of this I have Windows installed (cloned) as GPT on the NVMe drive and was able to boot with Clover method.

Edit: The image is available here for download: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1...kb0?usp=sharing

1. zero fill all blocks on the USB using Bootice
2. With DUET 2015 extracted:
> cd c:\DUET_EDK2015_REFIND
> CreateUSB.bat E: CLEAN
You have to 'AGREE'. If you are not prompted to do this, it won't work.
> CreateUSB.bat E: FORMAT
Check whether it succeeded or not.
> CreateUSB.bat E: BOOT
Verify that both DBR and MBR succeeded, otherwise it won't work.
3. Safely remove the USB from Windows and then physically unplug it.
4. Plug the USB back into the same slot.
5. With tianocore_uefi_duet_installer-master extracted:
> cd c:\tianocore_uefi_duet_installer-master\
> CreateUSB.cmd E: UDK_X64
Verify that all steps completed successfuly.
6. Copy over REFIND boot loader:
> cd c:\DUET_EDK2015_REFIND
> CreateUSB.bat E: REFIND
Verify that all steps completed successfuly.
7. From the Clover isntallation copy over "UsbMouseDxe.efi" and "NvmExpressDxe.efi" to this directory:
E:\EFI\Boot\drivers\
8. Optionally text edit the timeout value in:
E:\EFI\Boot\refind.conf
9. Safely eject the USB

If anyone wants a copy of the USB image, please message me.

References:
https://mrlithium.blogspot.com/2015/12/h...egacy-bios.html
https://gitlab.com/tianocore_uefi_duet_b...ler/tree/master
[Guide] NVMe-boot without modding your UEFI/BIOS (Clover-EFI bootloader method)
https://web.archive.org/web/201908070901...t-se-mainboard/
https://www.white-windows.ru/kak-sozdat-...iske-vruchnuyu/

Wrong thread. placed my message in the clover section!

Hello Everyone,

(I can't post links, so I am sorry but it will be harder for you if you want the spec or details)

I own a computer with a quite old motherboard (the asus p5p77-de)
I bought a new ssd and wanted to invest in something I could keep when I will upgrade my CPU/motherboard. (planning it in 1 or 2 years).

I bougth this ssd curcial ct1000p1ssd8

Along side with this NVMe/PCIe adaptor PA09_HS from amazob

I used a crucial software to clonea my current SATA ssd (Acronis True Image for Crucial)
My old ssd is curcial mx100

Please see the attached screenshot called "clone_sik" to see how it looks


Unfortunately my motherboard is BIOS based (non UEFI).

Let me explain what I understand so you can correct me if I am wrong and avoid wasting your time figuring what I misunderstood:
1/ My new nvme ssd is ready to boot on
2/ I don't need to make a clean new windows10 installation on it
3/ I can use DUET
4/ I can't used refind because I don't have an UEFI bios
5/ I can configure my bios to boot on the DUET usb key
6/ DUET itself will act as a boot manager
7/ DUET can be configure to boot on my nvme ssd

Then I can explain what I tried so far:
1/ prepare a DUET USB KEY like this (please see attached file "install_duet")
2/ Press F8 (quite specific to my MB: it is the boot manager) on the loading screen and chose to boot on the USB key.
3/ Wait for DUET to load
4/ From this interface (please see duet_main_ui attachement) choose Boot manager then set the NVME ssd as 1st.

I already tried that 1 time but it failed:
I was prompted to a DUET command line interface but I know not a single command. Tabulation seems not to work, ls and cd neither.

I am going to restart from the begining and it it still fails continue to explore this website to figure it out myself:
rodsbooks com bios2uefi

But if you can spot anything wrong in what I do or any misconception I may have, please tell me it would help a lot :)

Thank you
(sorry for my English, I am french, this is my best english grammar)



EDIT:
The first time I was stuck on this (attachment "duet_boot") and now, even after a full reinstallation of the USB key (as mentioned above) I only reach this and not the interface.

Just wanted to share my experience, the method listed here -> ([Guide] NVMe-boot without modding your UEFI/BIOS (Clover-EFI bootloader method)) wasn't working, but the 2020 build link in OP worked great.

Pressed ESC to show installer USB (setup from Win 10 ISO with Rufus/ GPT UEFI setting) , detected and installed to the NvMe no problem, works great even after encrypting with Veracrypt!

This is on a legacy pure BIOS old HP workstation

Many thanks

Hello gurus,
In short, on the first step of installing Windows 10 (Boot Fallback) a have a BSOD "ACPI BIOS ERROR" and could not find a solution. I tried different Windows versions and also both DUET options (EDK2015 and EDK2020).

Environment:
Laptop HP Pavilion dv6-3000
Legacy bios
Latest bios
No ACPI options in bios

Maybe there is a way how to disable ACPI during boot\install?

Hello,

I post to share my experience, thank the creators of this system, and ask a question:

I'm now booting Windows 10 fine with DUET-REFIND on my Asus P6T Deluxe (X58) with a NVME M2 from Crucial. Only "problems" I seem to have are that I get a red BErrorart! in the process (but it goes away quickly) and that I don't have keyboard access in the REFIND boot menu (i tried both a USB and a PS/2 keyboard with the same result).

I did the installation using a second USB pendrive created with Rufus and the official Windows 10 ISO and, luckily for me, I didn't have to press anything on the keyboard for DUET to detect it. For the DUET boot pendrive, I had to try two different USB sticks as the first one didn't seem to format or to copy the files correctly.

And the question I have not found in this whole thread:
If now I add a Linux installation to the same NVME drive, I should NOT install GRUB or any other boot loader, should I? If i have correctly understood DUET will detect any bootable EFI partition on the disc, and offer the option to boot from it, right?

Thanks in advance! :-)

Zitat von inarus im Beitrag #865

---

Hello Everyone,

(I can't post links, so I am sorry but it will be harder for you if you want the spec or details)

I own a computer with a quite old motherboard (the asus p5p77-de)
I bought a new ssd and wanted to invest in something I could keep when I will upgrade my CPU/motherboard. (planning it in 1 or 2 years).

I bougth this ssd curcial ct1000p1ssd8

Along side with this NVMe/PCIe adaptor PA09_HS from amazob

I used a crucial software to clonea my current SATA ssd (Acronis True Image for Crucial)
My old ssd is curcial mx100

Please see the attached screenshot called "clone_sik" to see how it looks


Unfortunately my motherboard is BIOS based (non UEFI).

Let me explain what I understand so you can correct me if I am wrong and avoid wasting your time figuring what I misunderstood:
1/ My new nvme ssd is ready to boot on
2/ I don't need to make a clean new windows10 installation on it
3/ I can use DUET
4/ I can't used refind because I don't have an UEFI bios
5/ I can configure my bios to boot on the DUET usb key
6/ DUET itself will act as a boot manager
7/ DUET can be configure to boot on my nvme ssd

Then I can explain what I tried so far:
1/ prepare a DUET USB KEY like this (please see attached file "install_duet")
2/ Press F8 (quite specific to my MB: it is the boot manager) on the loading screen and chose to boot on the USB key.
3/ Wait for DUET to load
4/ From this interface (please see duet_main_ui attachement) choose Boot manager then set the NVME ssd as 1st.

I already tried that 1 time but it failed:
I was prompted to a DUET command line interface but I know not a single command. Tabulation seems not to work, ls and cd neither.

I am going to restart from the begining and it it still fails continue to explore this website to figure it out myself:
rodsbooks com bios2uefi

But if you can spot anything wrong in what I do or any misconception I may have, please tell me it would help a lot :)

Thank you
(sorry for my English, I am french, this is my best english grammar)



EDIT:
The first time I was stuck on this (attachment "duet_boot") and now, even after a full reinstallation of the USB key (as mentioned above) I only reach this and not the interface.

---

Hello again. Can someone point me and answer. Is there available NVMe driver on Windows 7 x64 for Samsung 970 EVO Plus (MZ-V7S1T0BW) 1 TB. Is here who tested already and it worked for P8Z77 (i7-3770K if needed) platform on Win7 x64?