UEFI doesn't work

[Train]

This silly laptop will not let me disable safe boot not is legacy in the BIOS setup
There fore I could not boot to bootable USB drives.

Success!!
Used Win 10 and formatted Fat32

Used Rufus and selected "GPT partition for EUFI"

Used F12, Booted to the stick!

Now you just may have to have the 'efi' & 'efi/boot' folders changed to UPPER case; ie 'EFI' & 'EFI/BOOT'.

[jdc2000]

Lenovo has locked some of their recent laptops in to Windows 10.

http://www.zdnet.com/article/lenovo-...e-edition-pcs/

http://www.zdnet.com/article/whats-r...ovo-and-linux/

http://www.techrepublic.com/article/...ture-hardware/

[Train]

Figures

[Midknyte]

Wow. That's the first time I've seen a need to use "GPT for UEFI".

[Train]

Wow. That's the first time I've seen a need to use "GPT for UEFI".

The only thing that would boot.

And that looks like a one shot affair too. GRRRRR!

[Train]

Seems Acer

If you had read the updates that were posted before you posted those links, you'll see that no, Lenovo hasn't locked anyone out of anything. They've just removed the AHCI option for the hard drive, it's locked into RAID mode and the drivers ID that they use for fakeraid simply need to be added to the linux kernel's boot recognition (the drivers, as I understand it, are already there, just need the ID added so the kernel knows to load them).
In all reality, from what I understand (I'm going off what someone who knows more than I told me), it's just a single text file that needs to be updated on the various installation images to add the device id to the AHCI identifier, and it would then work, as the chipset they are using the fakerade is supported by linux, it's simply the device ID has been changed due to the removal of the AHCI option.

Best of my knowledge so far.

[Train]

Update:

Using the excellent tools created for antiX & MX
http://forum.mepiscommunity.org/view...1df71c70e07ca2

Tried MX 15 neos X64.
Win 10 Format stick Fat32
Used Rufus MBR for UEFI
Used F12, Booted to the stick
Made it persistence all and it reboots nicely.

This is a copy paste from elsewhere, so you can see the laptop specs.

$ inxi -Fxz
System:    Host: antix1 Kernel: 4.4.10-antix.1-amd64-smp x86_64 (64 bit gcc: 4.9.3)
           Desktop: IceWM 1.3.8
           Distro: antiX-16_x64-full Berta Cáceres 26 June 2016
Machine:   System: TOSHIBA (portable) product: Satellite E45W-C v: PSLZAU-00L00E
           Mobo: FF40 model: 06A0 v: 2.0 Bios: INSYDE v: 5.00 date: 07/01/2015
Battery    BAT0: charge: 39.3 Wh 97.0% condition: 40.5/45.0 Wh (90%)
           model: TKBSS G71C000JJ110 status: Charging
CPU:       Dual core Intel Core i3-5015U (-HT-MCP-) cache: 3072 KB
           flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx) bmips: 8380
           clock speeds: max: 2100 MHz 1: 800 MHz 2: 799 MHz 3: 807 MHz
           4: 799 MHz
Graphics:  Card: Intel Broadwell-U Integrated Graphics bus-ID: 00:02.0
           Display Server: X.Org 1.16.4 drivers: intel (unloaded: fbdev,vesa)
           Resolution: 1366x768@60.00hz
           GLX Renderer: Mesa DRI Intel HD Graphics 5500 (Broadwell GT2)
           GLX Version: 3.0 Mesa 10.3.2 Direct Rendering: Yes
Audio:     Card-1 Intel Wildcat Point-LP High Definition Audio Controller
           driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:1b.0
           Card-2 Intel Broadwell-U Audio Controller
           driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:03.0
           Sound: ALSA v: k4.4.10-antix.1-amd64-smp
Network:   Card: Intel Wireless 3160 driver: iwlwifi bus-ID: 02:00.0
           IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter>
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 532.1GB (1.3% used)
           ID-1: /dev/sda model: HGST_HTS545050A7 size: 500.1GB
           ID-2: USB /dev/sdb model: USB_Flash_Drive size: 32.0GB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 4.7G used: 2.3M (1%) fs: overlay dev: N/A
           ID-2: /home size: 3.8G used: 26M (1%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/loop1
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 48.0C mobo: 27.8C
           Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A
Info:      Processes: 170 Uptime: 2 min Memory: 181.2/5949.4MB
           Init: SysVinit runlevel: 5 Gcc sys: 4.9.2
           Client: Shell (bash 4.3.301) inxi: 2.3.0

[Train]

Here it is.

$ inxi -Fxz
System:    Host: mx1 Kernel: 4.6.0-0.bpo.1-amd64 x86_64 (64 bit gcc: 4.9.2)
           Desktop: Xfce 4.12.2 (Gtk 2.24.25)
           Distro: MX-15_x64 Néos 24 Sept 2016
Machine:   System: TOSHIBA (portable) product: Satellite E45W-C v: PSLZAU-00L00E
           Mobo: FF40 model: 06A0 v: 2.0 Bios: INSYDE v: 5.00 date: 07/01/2015
Battery    BAT0: charge: 40.5 Wh 100.1% condition: 40.5/45.0 Wh (90%)
           model: TKBSS G71C000JJ110 status: Full
CPU:       Dual core Intel Core i3-5015U (-HT-MCP-) cache: 3072 KB
           flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx) bmips: 8380
           clock speeds: max: 2100 MHz 1: 1999 MHz 2: 2000 MHz 3: 1999 MHz
           4: 1999 MHz
Graphics:  Card: Intel HD Graphics 5500 bus-ID: 00:02.0
           Display Server: X.Org 1.16.4 drivers: intel (unloaded: fbdev,vesa)
           Resolution: 1366x768@60.00hz
           GLX Renderer: Mesa DRI Intel HD Graphics 5500 (Broadwell GT2)
           GLX Version: 3.0 Mesa 12.0.2 Direct Rendering: Yes
Audio:     Card-1 Intel Wildcat Point-LP High Definition Audio Controller
           driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:1b.0
           Card-2 Intel Broadwell-U Audio Controller
           driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:03.0
           Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k4.6.0-0.bpo.1-amd64
Network:   Card: Intel Wireless 3160 driver: iwlwifi bus-ID: 02:00.0
           IF: wlan0 state: down mac: <filter>
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 532.1GB (0.2% used)
           ID-1: /dev/sda model: HGST_HTS545050A7 size: 500.1GB
           ID-2: USB /dev/sdb model: USB_Flash_Drive size: 32.0GB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 4.6G used: 29M (1%) fs: overlay dev: N/A
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 56.0C mobo: 27.8C
           Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A
Info:      Processes: 201 Uptime: 1 min Memory: 338.1/5885.9MB
           Init: SysVinit runlevel: 5 Gcc sys: 4.9.2
           Client: Shell (bash 4.3.301) inxi: 2.3.0 $ inxi -Fxz
System:    Host: mx1 Kernel: 4.6.0-0.bpo.1-amd64 x86_64 (64 bit gcc: 4.9.2)
           Desktop: Xfce 4.12.2 (Gtk 2.24.25)
           Distro: MX-15_x64 Néos 24 Sept 2016
Machine:   System: TOSHIBA (portable) product: Satellite E45W-C v: PSLZAU-00L00E
           Mobo: FF40 model: 06A0 v: 2.0 Bios: INSYDE v: 5.00 date: 07/01/2015
Battery    BAT0: charge: 40.5 Wh 100.1% condition: 40.5/45.0 Wh (90%)
           model: TKBSS G71C000JJ110 status: Full
CPU:       Dual core Intel Core i3-5015U (-HT-MCP-) cache: 3072 KB
           flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx) bmips: 8380
           clock speeds: max: 2100 MHz 1: 1999 MHz 2: 2000 MHz 3: 1999 MHz
           4: 1999 MHz
Graphics:  Card: Intel HD Graphics 5500 bus-ID: 00:02.0
           Display Server: X.Org 1.16.4 drivers: intel (unloaded: fbdev,vesa)
           Resolution: 1366x768@60.00hz
           GLX Renderer: Mesa DRI Intel HD Graphics 5500 (Broadwell GT2)
           GLX Version: 3.0 Mesa 12.0.2 Direct Rendering: Yes
Audio:     Card-1 Intel Wildcat Point-LP High Definition Audio Controller
           driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:1b.0
           Card-2 Intel Broadwell-U Audio Controller
           driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:03.0
           Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k4.6.0-0.bpo.1-amd64
Network:   Card: Intel Wireless 3160 driver: iwlwifi bus-ID: 02:00.0
           IF: wlan0 state: down mac: <filter>
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 532.1GB (0.2% used)
           ID-1: /dev/sda model: HGST_HTS545050A7 size: 500.1GB
           ID-2: USB /dev/sdb model: USB_Flash_Drive size: 32.0GB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 4.6G used: 29M (1%) fs: overlay dev: N/A
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 56.0C mobo: 27.8C
           Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A
Info:      Processes: 201 Uptime: 1 min Memory: 338.1/5885.9MB
           Init: SysVinit runlevel: 5 Gcc sys: 4.9.2
           Client: Shell (bash 4.3.301) inxi: 2.3.0

As you can see I am using a bootable stick.

Update: Turns out, for this machine , the iso needs to have the 'efi' & 'efi/boot' folders changed to UPPER case; ie 'EFI' & 'EFI/BOOT'. The resultant usb stick is easily recognized, bootable and installable from next boot.