[ubuntu-uk] Running Ubuntu In Live Mode

[Colin Law]

On 7 February 2013 11:08, Dave Morley <davmor2 at davmor2.co.uk> wrote:
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> On 07/02/13 10:43, Nigel Verity wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> Having got my fingers burnt a couple of times in the past, I now
>> never install a new version of Ubuntu, or any other distro, without
>> running it first as a live CD or, more recently, from a USB stick.
>>
>> It seems fairly inevitable that my next laptop will have UEFI
>> embodied. Does anybody know how this affects the running of Linux
>> in "live" mode? Is it simply that if the distro has been designed
>> to cope with UEFI, its live mode will work (and vice versa), or is
>> there more to it than that?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Nige
>>
>>
> You will need 12.10 on and the 64bit version is recommended.  Other
> than that there are a couple of things you will need to know.
>
> CD/DVD is more reliable than USB key  you can set the cd/dvd drive to
> boot first and it will

I thought I had read that, at least on some machines, only USB would
work with UEFI.  Also it /must/ be the 64 bit version of ubuntu 12.10.

Colin

>
> Uefi has an annoying habit of trying to speed up the boot process this
> means it does a quick scan on boot for a UEFI boot device and
> preferably a secure boot instance and continues to boot from it
> sometimes before the power has been provided to the usb key so it will
> skip it all together.
>
> Once you boot from where ever it will work as normal.  You get the
> install or run live option and away you go.
>
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