Boot Windows From Syslinux Efi

I have a Samsung Notebook NP900X4C with an LUKS encrypted installation on it. The system is booting in UEFI mode.

UEFI Syslinux does not support chainloading other EFI applications like UEFI Shell or Windows Boot Manager And indeed, even after a feature request in 2013, they still haven't implemented this very important feature. Make Syslinux work with UEFI Windows 10. Ask Question 0. But now I can't find a way to succesfully make a Syslinux entry to boot into the Windows. Though, If I choose 'Windows Boot Manager' from the MB boot menu, it boots just fine. I also installed a UEFI syslinux in the /EFI/ folder, alongside windows' Microsoft and Boot folders.

The problem is that the samsung-notebook kernel module is disabled in UEFI mode and due to that I am missing features like the keyboard backlight. Is it possible to modify the current installation so it can boot in BIOS mode? Is this correct that the basic steps would be converting the disk from GPT to MBR and installing grub from a live CD? Would this be possible with a LUKS partition? It's possible and it's easier than you think. Linux can boot fine from a GPT disk in BIOS mode, so there's no need to do the MBR-to-GPT conversion. With any luck, all you'll need to do is to install a BIOS-mode boot loader (GRUB, LILO, or SYSLINUX) to the disk.

There are three caveats, though: • I've never used LUKS, so I'm not sure how this would affect things. I wouldn't expect any problems, but that might be my lack of experience talking. • Some EFIs have quirky requirements for booting in BIOS mode. Most commonly, some will only boot in BIOS mode if they see a boot/active flag on an MBR partition, and this is normally absent on GPT disks. You can work around this by using an old version of fdisk (one that lacks GPT support, which was added only very recently) to set the boot/active flag or by using a new version of parted to set a flag (whose name I don't recall offhand) on the whole disk. Program aplikasi penjualan.

If you're lucky you won't need to deal with this issue. See for more on this problem. • If the computer is dual-booting with Windows, converting it to boot in BIOS mode is likely to be much trickier.

In this case, it might be easier to install as a boot manager. REFInd can then boot Windows in EFI mode and boot the BIOS-mode GRUB (or whatever you end up using). To do so, though, you'll need to edit refind.conf: Uncomment the scanfor line and ensure that hdbios is among the items that are scanned.