URL: <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?37280>
Summary: GRUB EFI 2.00 doesn't start with "error: couldn't terminate EFI services" Project: GNU GRUB Submitted by: giomasce Submitted on: gio 06 set 2012 08:38:56 GMT Category: Booting Severity: Major Priority: 5 - Normal Item Group: Software Error Status: None Privacy: Public Assigned to: None Originator Name: Originator Email: Open/Closed: Open Discussion Lock: Any Release: Release: other Reproducibility: Intermittent Planned Release: None _______________________________________________________ Details: Hi. I'm having problems with GRUB EFI on my new laptop, which is an Asus N56VZ-S4033V with Aptio version 2.14.1219 (it also advertises itself as version 204, don't know which number is more significant). I'm using Debian GNU/Linux sid (unstable) on it. I compiled grub-2.00 with this command: ./configure --with-platform=efi --target=x86_64 --program-prefix="" --prefix="/opt/grub" make make install Then I installed it with: /opt/grub/sbin/grub-install --directory=/opt/grub/lib/grub/x86_64-efi/ --efi-directory=/mnt/efi /opt/grub/sbin/grub-mkconfig > /mnt/efi/EFI/grub/grub.cfg (the system EFI partition is mounted in /mnt/efi). When I boot GRUB, the menu is displayed properly, but I can't boot Linux. Specifically, that what happens: if I boot the first entry in the GRUB menu ("GNU/Linux", created by grub-mkconfig, see configuration attached), sometimes (somewhat like once in ten attempts, but I have no precise statistics) it works perfectly, Linux boots and works as expected. In the other cases, after writing some lines I can't read (but see below), the GRUB menu gets displayed again nearly immediately. If I choose again the same entry, Linux apparently starts, but stops at the initramfs stage, complaining that it doesn't find /etc/fstab and cannot find init. The same kernel and initrd work always, for example, when served via PXE by another computer (at the moment, this is the only way I have to reliably boot my computer). To better understand what's going on, I try, instead of just pressing Enter to boot the first option, to edit it with E and, without actually touching anything, booting it with F10. This way I can see what it writes. The first time it writes: --- Caricamento Linux 3.2.0-3-amd64... Caricamento ramdisk iniziale... error: couldn't terminate EFI services. Press any key to continue... --- Than I press I key and I'm back to the edit screen for the first entry. I go with F10 again and this time Linux boots, but with the initramfs problem I wrote above. _______________________________________________________ File Attachments: ------------------------------------------------------- Date: gio 06 set 2012 08:38:56 GMT Name: grub.cfg Size: 6kB By: giomasce GRUB configuration <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/download.php?file_id=26484> _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?37280> _______________________________________________ Messaggio inviato con/da Savannah http://savannah.gnu.org/ _______________________________________________ Bug-grub mailing list Bug-grub@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub