Topic: [Solved] GParted Live from USB with UEFI Freezing with Errors
Hi,
I've been trying for several hours to have GParted Live booting from USB on my new UEFI board (Z97 Chipset).
First problem I had to solve was to find a working setup (from Windows) for the USB stick. After I lost hours trying with Method A, B and so on (Tuxbot, Makeboot.bat and others) finally I found a quick and efficient way with Rufus v.2.12. I'd suggest to add this on the website page as Method A (easy, fast and working).
Now whichever GParted Live iso version I tried so far, I could never have it run passed the first UEFI boot menu step. Seems the problem is really related to the content of the iso. I'm rather a beginner in the nix world so I simply tried all I could but abandoned on this one now. I could find a "half solution" by using the latest SystemRescueCD which now is booting perfectly well from the USB stick in the UEFI mode. This one was also not straight forward since there is also a bug / mistake in the grub configuration file, which must be edited manually, otherwise it's not booting at all (not finding the linux kernel). Here I could find the solution to this problem: edit the following file \boot\grub\grub-380.cfg and replace every instance of “isolinux” with “syslinux”. Drawback is that it's by far not the newest version of GParted.
I tried several of the latest GParted iso versions (28.1.1, 28.0.1, 28.0.0, 27.0.0) including the latest beta, for 64 and for 32bit systems. All are more or less leading to the same error:
After the log entry "[sdg] Assuming drive cache: write through" the system seems to hang for around 30 sec before a bunch of errors are displayed: ... "ata7.00 exception Emask 0x52 SAct .... frozen" "SError ... failed command: IDENTIFY PACKET DEVICE ... (ATA bus error)... and finally hanging totally after "ata7.00: status: { DRDY}"
Tried with several other boot modes (failsafe, vga etc.) but nothing did the trick. I also read what was said about checking BIOS settings (SecureBoot not activated) and graphic cards but that did not help neither. I assume the problem is not the video adapter (AMD Radeon HD 6450).
Somehow I get the feeling that I can't be the only one with this problem...
Any hints?
Thanks