Nvidia 860m

[gold_finger]

technomancer,

Glad to see you're still here, but sorry still having problems with new laptop.  When/If you ever do get booting USB straightened out I have a feeling it's going to be one of those things that turned out to be simple, but not immediately obvious.  Don't really know enough to comment on NVidia issues.

Just to let you know, another poster came along after you and did do a UEFI conversion successfully.  It was a long thread, but concluded around here:  https://www.linuxliteos.com/forums/index...28#msg9928

We found out on that post that my method described here does not work.  The initial installation in Legacy mode to GPT partitions is correct, but the conversion won't work if system is booted in Legacy mode (which is the only way LL can be booted).  You can however, use a live Ubuntu 14.04 USB booted in UEFI mode to do the conversion after LL is installed.  So, only difference is that you boot afterwards with live Ubuntu, download Boot-Repair to it and do the conversion from that instead.  Reboot and reset UEFI to boot in UEFI mode and it should work.  So, if you get to try installing, that would be best way to go.

[technomancer]

Still here. 
I may attempt that, but really cannot understand why uefi isn't part of the LinuxLite os in the first place.
Why should users have to tinker to that level just to boot/use a great distro. It really limits users on new hardware, a very large limitation considering 99% of computers have this by default now. FRUSTRATING. I am going to try all that in my free time, but honestly why spend that amount of time when it isn't part of the original LL image? A forgotton piece of the building of the OS in my opinion.Works great on OLD hardware........not where I need a fast light OS in my opinion.

[N4RPS]

Hello!

I, too, was able to successfully install a UEFI LL. Problem was, on that machine (Dell Inspiron 3135), there was an issue with shutdown. The logout screen took F-O-R-E-V-E-R to appear after selecting it! Some changes to X were suggested, but I haven't had time to revisit the issue yet.

In all fairness, to add UEFI to LL is a BIG undertaking, and, from what I understand, the development team IS working on it. I don't know which would be more difficult - adding UEFI to what we have now, or building an LL LiveCD out of an Xubuntu UEFI LiveCD, but I DO know THIS - they WILL continue to work on it until a solution is found.

I have a Samsung laptop here with UEFI technology, so I may give installing Windows 7/8 and LL as UEFI on THAT a shot...

73 DE N4RPS
Rob

[technomancer]

Update ! 8-13-2015

I managed to Get LinuxLite installed with Nvidia drivers ALL working.latest nvidia driver, bumblebee-nvidia packages.
I disabled intel virtualization in the BIOS. That allowed the Linuxlite dvd to boot somehow
I re-enabled after installation and have no issues, virtual box works great.
Installed without uefi. installed to my disk with Linux mint already installed on seperate partition.
Grub Picked up everything ! Thank you all for your assistance !
Great learning experience.