Linux LIVE Distro with great UEFI Support !! (debian like)
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The problem with booting to uefi dvd sometimes is you have to select a uefi source if that is possible on your system.
There are many web pages on uefi and non are exactly the same some suggest that you do this or that on your uefi settings but as far as I've seen, there are no two uefi systems alike.
I use a Fedora 22 live system and that boots fine in UEFI mode.
thank you. It actually narrowly depends the bios version. The AMT bios of various machines are more or less different. Some of them are fine with UEFI. Today I could boot the last mint distro with uefi without a problem, however if you use another pc, this same flashdisk will not be detected by the bios boot menu.
You know, ... I did a live with SYSLINUX and UEFI, and it sounds even better than the LIVE of Mint.
Syslinux vs grub2, actually syslinux is comfortable and could boot even better and it is more reliable on uefi's.
From my experience with getting UEFI to work, probably comes down to if hybrid is turned on by default in the firmware version. With hybrid turned on, most live images will try to boot as a legacy system, even though while it allows for legacy booting, it's not in any way easy to get legacy booting. Needs to be fully legacy boot, or fully UEFI with the hybrid option/allow legacy roms option turned off so that it will ONLY do UEFI boot. Again, that's just what I've seen in everything I've used.
From my experience with getting UEFI to work, probably comes down to if hybrid is turned on by default in the firmware version. With hybrid turned on, most live images will try to boot as a legacy system, even though while it allows for legacy booting, it's not in any way easy to get legacy booting. Needs to be fully legacy boot, or fully UEFI with the hybrid option/allow legacy roms option turned off so that it will ONLY do UEFI boot. Again, that's just what I've seen in everything I've used.
This is exactly the problem! The big aim is to make it seen for all computer during the boot of the machine by the BIOS (F12,...) to select which device/media/.. to boot/start.
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