Thank you
@tiqo thank you
very much for your kind post. Indeed, I did it all from scratch and followed again those instructions to the letter, slowly and keeping cool. The secret seems the steps and USB contents: To format the USB stick (I did with Rufus on Windows) and only put that
single BE0056.BIO file (FAT32 with default sector size). Moreover, the NUC takes a few seconds to show the Recovery Boot screen after pressing power for 3 seconds (with a quick flash of the LED from blue to orange). The F4 menu option for BIOS Recovery
also takes some seconds to reboot to the screen again, showing a countdown to flashing (showing "ESC to abort") that
I never go to earlier. Probably after reading the .BIO file in memory or something.
I was disappointed earlier a lot because Intel's Readme PDF writes:
The two BIOS
Release Notes files for NUC8i7BEH differ in the following (and note the ME version, that justified my disappointment):
I must have fiddled with BIOS and Clover settings all day, to no solution. No USB installer or my test Kingston SSD would go past a screen full of lines (in verbose boot).
Now that I have my system up and running, can you or any reader confirm two points that I noticed since completing the setup, please?
a) has anyone noticed if the HDD yellow LED (I use only SSD SATA for now) is only working intermittently? One time it blinks, another time it's completely off despite operations...
b) if you boot in -v mode, does anyone confirm that there's a slight slowdown, with the boot process taking some time when reaching this stage below?
Code:
afps_vfsop_mount 2525 mounted volume: VM
Thank you again everyone.