[Feature Request] GUI selection for Legacy BIOS and UEFI

[sevku]

The only tool that (I found which) currently supports this is Rufus for Windows. Would be nice, if a Linux tool would support this as nicely as Rufus.

See Screenshot: https://rufus.ie/

And yes, I've seen the following issue, but that's not my request: #2704

I've been (trying) to install Linux on a Surface Pro 4 which only supports UEFI and had some issues because of that. This would have greatly helped me.

[lurch]

Sounds like that would involve modifying the image that gets written to disk, which AFAIK isn't something that Etcher supports yet? See also #718 and #413

[sevku]

@lurch is there any way to make a UEFI bootable USB with Etcher? I sincerely did not manage to achieve that. The filesystem has been changed every time. Only Rufus has managed to do this.

[lurch]

@sevku I have no experience with UEFI, and I'm not an Etcher-developer, only an Etcher-friend 🙂

My understanding is that Etcher copies the raw disk image file to your USB stick byte-for-byte, so if you want to use Etcher to make a "UEFI bootable USB" then you'll need an image file that is specifically set up to do that.

[andreampiovesana]

very nice option! who can answer about it?

[leftbones]

Is this being worked on at all?

[thundron]

Etcher doesn't do any image manipulation by design: it just copies byte-to-byte the content of the source to the target. We have no plans on adding this functionality as of now