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CSMwrap works for me, but works only on MBR disk, not GPT

Open The-Solutor opened this issue 7 months ago • 8 comments

Hi I tested CSMwrap on my HP Elitedesk 705 Mini (a Ryzen 2400G machine)

In short that machine still has its own CSM support, but for some reasons, if I enable it and I disable Hyper-V (via a BCD parameter) the VGA driver isn't loaded correctly.

I tried everithing w/o any success.

I have either to enable Hyper-V or disable the native CSM to have the VGA working correctly.

Then I decided to try CSMwrap and IT WORKS.

Native CSM is disabled and I can boot with or w/o Hyper-V at will.

But I noticed that I can boot only from the SATA disk (which is MBR) but not from the NVME (which is obviously GUID).

Not a huge problem for me given the OSes installed in the NVME disk are still bootable via an entry in the SATA BCD, but still I need two disks to get all the thing working.

So I ask, if this is supposedly the normal working way of CSMwrap, or there is a bug that prevents booting from a GUID disk if a MBR one is attached?

To be clear the NVME disk is shown pressing ESC, but if I select to boot from it CSMwrap tells me that no bootable device is found.

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Aside that the USB management isn't rock solid, sometimes the keyboard is dead during boot time, sometimes it works correctly.

P.S. for the record on that machine I tested Win 7 x64 (works perfectly) Win XP and Vista (either 32 or 64 bits) they attempt to boot but then throw the infamous non ACPI compliant error (even with a patched acpi.sys driver)

The-Solutor avatar Jun 09 '25 12:06 The-Solutor