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Install Centos 7 To Uefi Disc

How to Install Linux on a Windows Machine With UEFI Secure Boot When Windows 8 rolled up to the curb, Microsoft did its best to enforce a protocol known as Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) Secure Boot. Dual-boot Centos 7 & Windows 10. Motherboard: X99-E WS USB3.1 1) First install Windows 10. 2) Download CentOS 7 (everything ISO) from centos.org 3) Burn the ISO to a bootable USB thumbdrive with Rufus. Other tools are possible, see here. 4) This is the tricky part: you next need to enable a UEFI boot from the CentOS thumb drive.

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Burn ccd sub img files download. I am trying to dual-boot CentOS 6.5 on my desktop that is currently running Windows 8.1. I have two storage devices: an SSD that has my Windows installation, and an HDD that has all of my data. Both are formatted using GPT, and Windows boots using UEFI.

I used the CentOS 6.5 live DVD (CentOS-6.5-x86_64-LiveDVD.iso) to create an EFI-bootable flash drive (it does boot properly in EFI mode). I receive an error, however, when CentOS is booting (error is below). I have a 6.4 boot DVD which boots as expected, but it does not boot in UEFI mode and therefore doesn't play nicely with my Windows installation (I have no way to access it, even using rEFInd or any other similar tools). What do I need to do to get the device to boot properly in UEFI mode?

  1. The important thing is that you need to install the OS with the firmware. That you want to run the system with, so you'll need to re-install the. System using the UEFI boot mode to boot your installation media in order. To get the system going with UEFI.
  2. Installing Linux (CentOS 7) on an older Windows laptop. We will generally follow the outlines laid out in this Tecmint guide on installing CentOS 7 dual boot with Windows on UEFI systems.
  3. Then you can wipe the drive like this with diskpart commands: Boot from the Win 7 disk, but don't install. HERE is a good tutorial on a UEFI Windows 7 install procedure.
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The article Problem with installing Centos 6.3 on USB Stick might pertain to your problem :

If you ever face a 'kernel panic' issue when trying to boot Centos 6 from your USB stick, this is due to the EFI bootloader not pointing to the root of your USB stick.

To fix this, go under the EFI folder in your USB stick, then find those files ending with *.conf and use a text editor to change the root= to your USB device. In my case, it is some things like live:UUID=UUID_OF_Partition or live:label=Label_OF_Partition

Another note to take care is instead of installing using UNetBootIn or ISO2USB, we can actually use Fedora Live USB Creator. The good thing about using it is that you can find your USB device's UUID under syslinuxsyslinux.cfg.

See also this link suggesting adding rootdelay=90 reboot=a,w in grub.cfg.

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Check also for BIOS update from the manufacturer of your computer.

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They have made this version a hybrid OS so try running dd command from terminal and mount the image to USB Drive. I have done the same and it got installed properly or for a change of pace try downloading the .iso from http://mirror.kernel.org.

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I don't think centos doesn't support gpt schemes, I think instead that the programs (for now all I think) 'iso2usb' who are not able to properly load the iso images of almost all systems (I had problems with ubuntu too) in the usb stick.

Install Centos 7 To Uefi Disc

My suggestion is:

  1. partitions the temporary usb stick with a mbr scheme
  2. make sure in your machine (bios) is disabled secure boot enabled and instead is enable also legacy / csm boot and when you restart pc (and break with esc or F2) choice voice without 'UEFI:' prefix
  3. Run the installation from usb mbr partitioned on a hd or ssd partitioned according to the scheme gpt (i think centos supports gpt if the bios supports it) in this way it can live with windows together.

I think it's all

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Install Centos 7 To Uefi Disc Drive

I've had have the same issue last week. I switched back to legacy mode and then installed Linux. I used 'Guided partition' and it supports dual boot automatically. If I manually create partition, it cannot even boot. (strange) The Linux I used is Ubuntu. I believe CentOS has something similar. If you are not insist in CentOS. You can try Ubuntu 13. It can support UEFI.

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