Re: IFL and Microsoft Surface Pro 4
Posted: Sat Aug 06, 2016 3:13 am
I installed TeraByte Drive Image Backup and Restore Suite V3 on my Surface Pro 4 today. My SP4 has been upgraded to the Anniversary Update. It is running Windows 10 Version 1607 (OS Build 14393.10)
The installation went fine, no error messages. I created boot USB pen drives (sticks) for DOS, Linux and UEFI, all on the SP4. Attempting to boot from the DOS stick resulted in a blank (black) screen, no evident activity. The DOS stick booted my desktop system successfully. Attempting to boot the SP$ from the UEFI stick just brought up a few white pixels at the top LH of the screen,the same result as from the version 2.99 UEFI boot stick I had tried previously. The Linux boot stick performed the same as the OP reported
IFL (GUI) Network Boot Disk - best available graphics mode
IFL (GUI) Network Boot Disk - 1024x768 graphics mode
IFL (GUI) Network Boot Disk - 800x600 graphics mode
IFL (GUI) Network Boot Disk - 640x480 graphics mode
IFL (GUI) Network Boot Disk - best available frame buffer mode
After a few seconds it clears the screen and shows
Loading vmlinuz.....
And hangs. I did have Secure Boot (Microsoft and 3rd party ...) enabled. I disabled secure boot and TPM and tried again. This time it got one step further, showing
Loading vmlinuz.....
Loading initrmfs.gz......
And hung.
But no advance from that on my SP4
I created a new TBWINRE boot stick, using all the defaults. The SP4 has booted from that (with Secure Boot [MS & 3rd ... ] and TPM enabled) and is currently backing up the SP4.
The installation went fine, no error messages. I created boot USB pen drives (sticks) for DOS, Linux and UEFI, all on the SP4. Attempting to boot from the DOS stick resulted in a blank (black) screen, no evident activity. The DOS stick booted my desktop system successfully. Attempting to boot the SP$ from the UEFI stick just brought up a few white pixels at the top LH of the screen,the same result as from the version 2.99 UEFI boot stick I had tried previously. The Linux boot stick performed the same as the OP reported
IFL (GUI) Network Boot Disk - best available graphics mode
IFL (GUI) Network Boot Disk - 1024x768 graphics mode
IFL (GUI) Network Boot Disk - 800x600 graphics mode
IFL (GUI) Network Boot Disk - 640x480 graphics mode
IFL (GUI) Network Boot Disk - best available frame buffer mode
After a few seconds it clears the screen and shows
Loading vmlinuz.....
And hangs. I did have Secure Boot (Microsoft and 3rd party ...) enabled. I disabled secure boot and TPM and tried again. This time it got one step further, showing
Loading vmlinuz.....
Loading initrmfs.gz......
And hung.
But no advance from that on my SP4
I created a new TBWINRE boot stick, using all the defaults. The SP4 has booted from that (with Secure Boot [MS & 3rd ... ] and TPM enabled) and is currently backing up the SP4.