Pl. see the attached file. Libreboot options shown..Adelie Rc1 or beta4 cannot be booted by any of these options... Since AdelieLinux is about free software, pl. make it work with libreboot On Sat, 23 May 2020 at 23:22, Sanjay Mysore <sanjmys(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: > Mr. Reeves > You are right in that it was not booting only on libreboot. On my friends > machine with BIOS, it booted. Sorry.... > Yet, after booting, it asks if you want to install or play around, i.e > live. When I select live, it falls into a zsh shell. > I am familiar with bash...not used zsh till now > As a blind shot, typed startx...nothing happened > > On Sat, 23 May 2020, 9:46 pm Max Rees, <maxcrees(a)me.com&gt; wrote: > >> On Sat May 23 11:58 AM, Sanjay Mysore wrote: >> > Thanks for replying.. >> > I did not mean to be pointing fingers at any body, but I am frustrated >> > that after having downloaded 2 .iso, both do not work I do not think >> > it has anything to do with Libreboot as such.... >> >> I think it has everything to do with Libreboot. >> >> The docs for it are kind of sparse so I'm shooting in the dark here. I >> tried using the GRUB payload ROMs they provide for QEMU but it causes an >> internal KVM error as soon as it's loaded. >> >> Looking back to your original email and referencing the Libreboot docs, >> it seems you were trying to boot the ISO as if it were an ISOLINUX >> image. This is not the case - our ISOs have not been ISOLINUX based >> since before BETA1; they all use GRUB now. This explains why it would >> just return to the original menu without having done anything - it was >> looking for a file to parse that does not exist on our images. >> >> I guess Libreboot does not have GRUB set up to similarly parse other >> GRUB configurations. You can try running some commands at the GRUB >> command line (press "c" at the menu) to try to manually boot the ISO >> (this is based on boot/grub.cfg from the x86_64 RC1 ISO): >> >> 1. linux (cd)/bzImage-x86_64 squashroot=x86_64.squashfs >> 2. initrd (cd)/initrd-x86_64 >> 3. boot >> >> Max >> > -- With Best Regards Sanjay. M.R