UEFI doesn't need Rufus, Unetbootin, dd, USB Writer etc. (Recommended by Ubuntu)

[Andrew_NZ]

Edit: For people not familiar with UEFI. All Intel TV Boxes and Tablets are UEFI (as opposed to the traditional BIOS system.)

I've tried this on four UEFI devices now with a bunch of Linux ISOs and the generic official Windows 10 ISO.

UEFI will boot EFI files regardless of the boot sector and partitoning. Just extract the ISO (copy it's contents) into the root directory of a blank USB (FAT32) and it will be available to boot.

You can even have multiple ISOs in separate folders and simply swap what you have in the root directory. (This is just moving files already on the USB (not copying them) and takes a few seconds.) My USB had five distro's on it.

The only variable is the secure boot settings. (And obviously not having it on legacy settings if there is that choice.)

[RISCy Dude]

I tried Remix OS on a NEXBOX T10, worked great.

Thanks for the tip.

[Andrew_NZ]

I tried Remix OS on a NEXBOX T10, worked great.

Thanks for the tip.

Turns out this is actually officially recommended by Ubuntu for someone who needs to make a UEFI only install.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/In...n/FromUSBStick

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" Creating an EFI-only image


If you need to install Ubuntu in EFI-only mode, you might want to create an EFI only image. Askubuntu describes how to do this. "

Edit: I just ran into my first issue with this method. When copying the files of an Arch Linux variant's ISO it said it wasn't recommended due to some of the files containing symbolic links.That can be solved by using an NTFS partition tho. From what I've read some earlier versions of UEFI can only boot EFI files from FAT/FAT32 and the EFI file system though . (The two PCs I've tried booting EFI files from NTFS worked but they are reasonably new.)