[Tails-dev] thinkcentre M82 fails to boot with tails 0.23 an…

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Autor: Daniel Kahn Gillmor
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Temat: [Tails-dev] thinkcentre M82 fails to boot with tails 0.23 and 1.0 -- but 1.1 UEFI alpha works
I've tried booting a Lenovo Thinkcentre M82 (bios 9SKT58AUS and also
9SKT79AUS) with tails 0.23 and 1.0 (both alpha generations, made on
linux, and beta generations, made with Tails installer). I configured
the bios so that it could boot from USB, and so that it would boot in
"legacy" mode.

However, the result with the beta generation was a blinking white cursor
in the upper left-hand corner, before even seeing the syslinux screen.
The result on a different M82 (9SKT79AUS) with an alpha version is
actually repeated reboots with a very brief flash of something that i
think says "machine check error".

moving to a pre-release version of 1.1 (alpha generation, created with
isohybrid and dd, not with tails installer) *does* manage to boot the
M82, however.

This is the image i used successfully:

http://nightly.tails.boum.org/build_Tails_ISO_feature-uefi/tails-i386-feature_uefi-1.1-20140429T0733Z-02a2adf.iso

(sha512sum
90914e20d303e6300dcc63acda2a0d2f1293f81ae11a4060381edd67eeef5f452aa16d37ce989f35f7780ad633ab58e47a840d53edd27fc67258f573c438ad19
)

I haven't tried it with a 1.1 beta generation yet, so i have no UEFI
feedback to provide.

    --dkg