If you create a standard E2B v2 USB drive with agFM, then you can usually secure UEFI64-boot from it by booting from the second (FAT32) partition. However, some systems will not Secure UEFI64-boot from the second partition because it uses a Microsoft-signed grub2-based Kaspersky EFI boot file which has been blacklisted by Microsoft. This means […]
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Useful things to know about UEFI How do I UEFI-boot from E2B? With E2B v2 + agFM, you can UEFI-boot to the agFM grub-based menu system on the 2nd partition and then select a payload file. Insert E2B USB drive into USB port Switch on the system Press repeatedly the BIOS Boot Selection key (e.g.
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The AntiVirusLiveCD ISO only supports 64-bit CPUs and Legacy\MBR booting. MBR-booting on a system with a 32-bit CPU causes a ‘not 64-bit CPU’ error message to be displayed. When I downloaded the AntivirusLiveCD-36.0-0.103.0.iso file, I found by using 7Zip, that it did not contain a \EFI folder or any boot image which contained any .efi boot files.
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To update E2B and agFM, download the latest E2B version and run Make_E2B.exe then click on the Update E2B Drive button. Check contents of \agFM_version.txt for version number. v1.04 Requires FAT32 partition to be type 0C for .imgPTN switchingv1.5 FAT32 partition can be type 0B or type 0C – incl. latest Feb 03 2002 grub2v1.6
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Linux distros such as Ubuntu, Lubuntu, KUbuntu, Elementary OS, Linux Mint are base on Ubuntu and will contain a /casper folder inside the ISO. They must recognise the ‘persistent’ boot parameter and automatically look for a disk volume with a volume name of ‘casper-rw’. Using the E2B and agFM menu systems, you can rename the
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Puppy Linux is very lightweight and also has a Live-Persistent save feature where it can create its own save file (you don’t need to create a persistence file yourself). All we need to do is add the ‘psavemark=1’ keyword into the kernel parameters (which is what E2B does when you use the .isopup file extension). So
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Partition Image files Use Partition Images for 100% UEFI Secure Boot compatibility (no shim or MOK Manager needed) and/or where container files such as ISOs, IMGs or VHDs do not work and a flat-file partition is needed. 2024-05-16 MakePartImage v106 is latest – includes support for booting Ubuntu/XUbuntu casper-based payloads. Example 1 – .imgPTN file
