Re: stretch uefi install ends up with no framebuffer for console
On Fri, 17 Jul 2020 16:45:33 + rbraun204 wrote: > Hey all, i'm installing stretch onto a HP Z4G4 workstation via > netboot and in uefi mode. The only video hardware in the box is a > NVIDIA Corporation GP107GL [Quadro P620]. The install goes as > expected. Only installed standard utils and ssh server. > > On first boot grub comes up and boots into the default entry, the > only text after on the screen is the loading linux/initrd echo entries > from grub. Thought it was frozen, but noticed my dhcp service got a > req from the box and sure enough i can ssh in and the machine is up > and running, just no output to the monitor. Still just the grub > statements up on the screen. > > running hwinfo --framebuffer results in no output. > > efifb appears to get loaded and has grubs resolution > [1.451694] efifb: probing for efifb > [1.451712] efifb: framebuffer at 0xe000, using 8640k, total 8640k > [1.451712] efifb: mode is 1920x1080x32, linelength=8192, pages=1 > [1.451713] efifb: scrolling: redraw > [1.451713] efifb: Truecolor: size=8:8:8:8, shift=24:16:8:0 > [1.484650] fb0: EFI VGA frame buffer device > > > installed the latest kernel from stretch-backports, reboot. Same > behavior as above. > > Installed nvidia-driver (proper for this gpu), reboot. Same behavior as > above. > > Upgraded to nvidia-driver from backports, reboot. Same behavior as above. > > Install some desktop environment, reboot. system boots into X no > issues. Try a ctrl-alt-f1 to drop to console and monitor shuts off > reporting no video output. ctrl-alt-f7 brings video and monitor back > online. > > Moved on to trying to massage /etc/default/grub and setting > GRUB_GFXMODE and GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX. And can make grub look pretty > at 1920x1080 or any resolution if I want. It appears grub is passing > the video resolution properly to the kernel as I can see in dmesg when > efifb is loaded the resolution it's looking to set is the value of > GRUB_GFXMODE. For shits and giggles tried setting gfxmode to 1024x768 > and still no dice. > > Tried booting into the grub commandline to verify video modes. Sure > enough grub reports efi GOP driver and 1920x1080x32 as a valid mode. > > Anyone have any ideas? > > Thanks > > Ryan > Hi Ryan, Check if your video card needs a firmware. Also check if it needs a kernel module. Regards, Marko
stretch uefi install ends up with no framebuffer for console
Hey all, i'm installing stretch onto a HP Z4G4 workstation via netboot and in uefi mode. The only video hardware in the box is a NVIDIA Corporation GP107GL [Quadro P620]. The install goes as expected. Only installed standard utils and ssh server. On first boot grub comes up and boots into the default entry, the only text after on the screen is the loading linux/initrd echo entries from grub. Thought it was frozen, but noticed my dhcp service got a req from the box and sure enough i can ssh in and the machine is up and running, just no output to the monitor. Still just the grub statements up on the screen. running hwinfo --framebuffer results in no output. efifb appears to get loaded and has grubs resolution [1.451694] efifb: probing for efifb [1.451712] efifb: framebuffer at 0xe000, using 8640k, total 8640k [1.451712] efifb: mode is 1920x1080x32, linelength=8192, pages=1 [1.451713] efifb: scrolling: redraw [1.451713] efifb: Truecolor: size=8:8:8:8, shift=24:16:8:0 [1.484650] fb0: EFI VGA frame buffer device installed the latest kernel from stretch-backports, reboot. Same behavior as above. Installed nvidia-driver (proper for this gpu), reboot. Same behavior as above. Upgraded to nvidia-driver from backports, reboot. Same behavior as above. Install some desktop environment, reboot. system boots into X no issues. Try a ctrl-alt-f1 to drop to console and monitor shuts off reporting no video output. ctrl-alt-f7 brings video and monitor back online. Moved on to trying to massage /etc/default/grub and setting GRUB_GFXMODE and GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX. And can make grub look pretty at 1920x1080 or any resolution if I want. It appears grub is passing the video resolution properly to the kernel as I can see in dmesg when efifb is loaded the resolution it's looking to set is the value of GRUB_GFXMODE. For shits and giggles tried setting gfxmode to 1024x768 and still no dice. Tried booting into the grub commandline to verify video modes. Sure enough grub reports efi GOP driver and 1920x1080x32 as a valid mode. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks Ryan
Re: UEFI install
Corey wrote: I got a new laptop without a CD/DVD drive and am trying to install off a USB image and either dual boot my pre-installed windows 8.1 or just wipe and use strictly Debian. I get all the way to the point of installing GRUB and it fails. I've read that this may have something to do with the disk being GPT instead of MBR? How do I get a dual boot Windows 8.1 and Debian Wheezy install? Or at the least have Debian successfully installed (although I'm afraid of wiping the HDD and losing the ability to revert back to Windows) Hi, Which version of Debian did you try to install? What eactly happened when grub installation failed? Debian Wheezy (7.x) and onwards for amd64 should install via UEFI and co-exist happily with Windows 8 on a GPT system, but there may be bugs of course. If you can give us some more information that should help. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Support the Campaign for Audiovisual Free Expression: http://www.eff.org/cafe/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/e1wcunl-0001ut...@mail.einval.com
Re: UEFI install
Corey wrote: I got a new laptop without a CD/DVD drive and am trying to install off a USB image and either dual boot my pre-installed windows 8.1 or just wipe and use strictly Debian. If you don't mind me asking: what is the brand and model of your new laptop? Before wiping your hard disk drive, did you save a copy of the boot installation software provided by your laptop vendor/manufacturer? May I ask why you prefer to do a UEFI install versus a normal install (with regards to Windows 8.1 and Debian Wheezy)? I confirm that the latest release of Debian Wheezy, a.k.a. 7.4, supports UEFI install. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140423140034.25...@gmx.com
Re: UEFI install
Hi Corey, On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 07:11:45AM -0700, Corey Blair wrote: I downloaded debian-7.4.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso and then used unetbootin to make a bootable USB flash drive from it. I changed UEFI boot to legacy mode and booted off the UEFI USB. The installer runs fine, but I have trouble loading the components from cd-rom, so I execute a shell and mount /dev/sdb /cdrom, which used to work but now it's failing with invalid argument. Gah, yet another person using unetbootin. It's responsible for a lot of problem reports we're seeing these days. It's totally unnecessary for our images these days, and has been for ages. You can simply write our amd64 and i386 images directly to a USB stick using dd or win32diskimager. unetbootin will not start the installer in the right way, and AFAIK won't do the right things with UEFI either. When it was working I went through, partitioned some space for Debian, got all the way to GRUB and I get something about grub failed to install to /target/. I'd try to run the install again and get the exact message but now I am having difficulties with even loading the components off USB. There's a known issue here that hits some people booting off USB in legacy mode this way. If you can try using the DVD image (written directly to the USB stick) again, booting in UEFI mode, that should most likely work much better for you. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Google-bait: http://www.debian.org/CD/free-linux-cd Debian does NOT ship free CDs. Please do NOT contact the mailing lists asking us to send them to you. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140423142557.gc9...@einval.com
Re: UEFI install
I downloaded debian-7.4.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso and then used unetbootin to make a bootable USB flash drive from it. I changed UEFI boot to legacy mode and booted off the UEFI USB. The installer runs fine, but I have trouble loading the components from cd-rom, so I execute a shell and mount /dev/sdb /cdrom, which used to work but now it's failing with invalid argument. When it was working I went through, partitioned some space for Debian, got all the way to GRUB and I get something about grub failed to install to /target/. I'd try to run the install again and get the exact message but now I am having difficulties with even loading the components off USB. On 4/23/2014 3:25 AM, Steve McIntyre wrote: Corey wrote: I got a new laptop without a CD/DVD drive and am trying to install off a USB image and either dual boot my pre-installed windows 8.1 or just wipe and use strictly Debian. I get all the way to the point of installing GRUB and it fails. I've read that this may have something to do with the disk being GPT instead of MBR? How do I get a dual boot Windows 8.1 and Debian Wheezy install? Or at the least have Debian successfully installed (although I'm afraid of wiping the HDD and losing the ability to revert back to Windows) Hi, Which version of Debian did you try to install? What eactly happened when grub installation failed? Debian Wheezy (7.x) and onwards for amd64 should install via UEFI and co-exist happily with Windows 8 on a GPT system, but there may be bugs of course. If you can give us some more information that should help. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/5357ca21.4000...@yahoo.com
Re: UEFI install
- Original Message - From: Corey Blair Sent: 04/23/14 10:11 PM To: Steve McIntyre Subject: Re: UEFI install I downloaded debian-7.4.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso and then used unetbootin to make a bootable USB flash drive from it. I changed UEFI boot to legacy mode and booted off the UEFI USB. This is the first time I heard one could create a UEFI USB installer using Unetbootin. How did you manage to do it? The installer runs fine, but I have trouble loading the components from cd-rom, so I execute a shell and mount /dev/sdb /cdrom, which used to work but now it's failing with invalid argument. At which point did you have trouble loading components from cd-rom? during the installation process? or.? but now I am having difficulties with even loading the components off USB. Did you mean that you could not complete the whole installation process? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140423185251.25...@gmx.com
Re: UEFI install
- Original Message - From: Steve McIntyre Sent: 04/23/14 10:25 PM To: Corey Blair Subject: Re: UEFI install Gah, yet another person using unetbootin. It's responsible for a lot of problem reports we're seeing these days. It's totally unnecessary unetbootin will not start the installer in the right way, and AFAIK won't do the right things with UEFI either. Well, I have to disagree with you. I have been using Unetbootin for the past two years to burn Linux distros such as Debian (Squeeze and Wheezy), Ubuntu (from versions 12 to 13) and Linux Mint on to a USB flash/thumb drive and then using it to install on to my hard disk drive without even a single problem. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140423185758.25...@gmx.com
Re: UEFI install
On 23.04.2014 14:57, Theodore Alcapotaxis wrote: - Original Message - From: Steve McIntyre Sent: 04/23/14 10:25 PM To: Corey Blair Subject: Re: UEFI install Gah, yet another person using unetbootin. It's responsible for a lot of problem reports we're seeing these days. It's totally unnecessary unetbootin will not start the installer in the right way, and AFAIK won't do the right things with UEFI either. Well, I have to disagree with you. I have been using Unetbootin for the past two years to burn Linux distros such as Debian (Squeeze and Wheezy), Ubuntu (from versions 12 to 13) and Linux Mint on to a USB flash/thumb drive and then using it to install on to my hard disk drive without even a single problem. I've got 2 laptops I've recently installed with Debian 7.4 using a UEFI from a bootable USB. I found unetbootin was useless though I'd used it before in the past to make boot USB. In this instance I simply 'cp debian-7.4.iso /dev/sdX' where /dev/sdX was my USB drive. Seemed odd just doing a cp but it actually worked flawlessly and was what I found the release notes recommended. In the case of one of my laptops I then had to immediately upgrade to Jessie to get certain hardware working given the new hardware devices it had. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/693c2dde4215a5d4f09609e516515...@undergrid.net
Re: UEFI install
So I can just do a file copy in Windows of the .iso to the thumb drive? Not actually extracting the iso image? I will try that later tonite, but also seems odd to me that it would work. From: Jeremy T. Bouse jbo...@debian.org To: Theodore Alcapotaxis theota...@mail.com Cc: Steve McIntyre st...@einval.com; Corey Blair cblair...@yahoo.com; debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Wednesday, 23 April 2014, 12:07 Subject: Re: UEFI install On 23.04.2014 14:57, Theodore Alcapotaxis wrote: - Original Message - From: Steve McIntyre Sent: 04/23/14 10:25 PM To: Corey Blair Subject: Re: UEFI install Gah, yet another person using unetbootin. It's responsible for a lot of problem reports we're seeing these days. It's totally unnecessary unetbootin will not start the installer in the right way, and AFAIK won't do the right things with UEFI either. Well, I have to disagree with you. I have been using Unetbootin for the past two years to burn Linux distros such as Debian (Squeeze and Wheezy), Ubuntu (from versions 12 to 13) and Linux Mint on to a USB flash/thumb drive and then using it to install on to my hard disk drive without even a single problem. I've got 2 laptops I've recently installed with Debian 7.4 using a UEFI from a bootable USB. I found unetbootin was useless though I'd used it before in the past to make boot USB. In this instance I simply 'cp debian-7.4.iso /dev/sdX' where /dev/sdX was my USB drive. Seemed odd just doing a cp but it actually worked flawlessly and was what I found the release notes recommended. In the case of one of my laptops I then had to immediately upgrade to Jessie to get certain hardware working given the new hardware devices it had.
Re: UEFI install
On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 12:50:57PM -0700, Corey Blair wrote: So I can just do a file copy in Windows of the .iso to the thumb drive? Not actually extracting the iso image? I will try that later tonite, but also seems odd to me that it would work. No, copying the file directly from Windows won't work. Use win32diskimager as I suggested, and you should be fine. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Managing a volunteer open source project is a lot like herding kittens, except the kittens randomly appear and disappear because they have day jobs. -- Matt Mackall -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140423205654.gg9...@einval.com
Re: UEFI install
Corey, If you don't like to use unetbootin, you could try one of the following: 1. pendrivelinux (url: http://www.pendrivelinux.com/) 2. rufus (url: http://rufus.akeo.ie/) Both are free and open-source and they don't need to be installed on Windows. Which version of Windows are you using? and in what language? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140423210510.255...@gmx.com
Re: UEFI install
On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 07:16:56PM -0300, André Nunes Batista wrote: On Fri, 2014-04-18 at 10:19 -0400, Gary Dale wrote: On 18/04/14 12:33 AM, Corey Blair wrote: I got a new laptop without a CD/DVD drive and am trying to install off a USB image and either dual boot my pre-installed windows 8.1 or just wipe and use strictly Debian. I get all the way to the point of installing GRUB and it fails. I've read that this may have something to do with the disk being GPT instead of MBR? How do I get a dual boot Windows 8.1 and Debian Wheezy install? Or at the least have Debian successfully installed (although I'm afraid of wiping the HDD and losing the ability to revert back to Windows) You may not be able to. The problem may be that Wheezy is too old. Coexistence with UEFI is still developing. However, Wheezy can handle GPT disks just fine. To test this, turn of UEFI in the BIOS and try the install again. To make things easier, first use Windows disk manager to shrink the Windows partition. Create a new partition in the free space and also leave a small empty (a few hundred megabytes) space somewhere for the EFI System Partition. Then start the Wheezy install. If that works, turn UEFI back on and try booting into both OSs. It is possible to install debian wheezy with uefi enabled, take a look: https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2014/03/msg01372.html and the subsequent answer by Andrew. -- André N. Batista GNUPG/PGP KEY: 6722CF80 If Legacy BIOS settings are turned off, so that the machine will boot only from UEFI an install of Debian 7 Wheezy will work: I have two machines here installed just that way. You will need to tab down to the advanced options as you boot the installer and select expert mode : at that point, you can also choose which desktop to install. You may be able to install a very basic machine by using dd to write the DVD image to an 8G USB stick. AndyC -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140419201247.ga5...@galactic.demon.co.uk
Re: UEFI install
On 18/04/14 12:33 AM, Corey Blair wrote: I got a new laptop without a CD/DVD drive and am trying to install off a USB image and either dual boot my pre-installed windows 8.1 or just wipe and use strictly Debian. I get all the way to the point of installing GRUB and it fails. I've read that this may have something to do with the disk being GPT instead of MBR? How do I get a dual boot Windows 8.1 and Debian Wheezy install? Or at the least have Debian successfully installed (although I'm afraid of wiping the HDD and losing the ability to revert back to Windows) You may not be able to. The problem may be that Wheezy is too old. Coexistence with UEFI is still developing. However, Wheezy can handle GPT disks just fine. To test this, turn of UEFI in the BIOS and try the install again. To make things easier, first use Windows disk manager to shrink the Windows partition. Create a new partition in the free space and also leave a small empty (a few hundred megabytes) space somewhere for the EFI System Partition. Then start the Wheezy install. If that works, turn UEFI back on and try booting into both OSs. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/5351346c.1000...@torfree.net
Re: UEFI install
On Fri, 2014-04-18 at 10:19 -0400, Gary Dale wrote: On 18/04/14 12:33 AM, Corey Blair wrote: I got a new laptop without a CD/DVD drive and am trying to install off a USB image and either dual boot my pre-installed windows 8.1 or just wipe and use strictly Debian. I get all the way to the point of installing GRUB and it fails. I've read that this may have something to do with the disk being GPT instead of MBR? How do I get a dual boot Windows 8.1 and Debian Wheezy install? Or at the least have Debian successfully installed (although I'm afraid of wiping the HDD and losing the ability to revert back to Windows) You may not be able to. The problem may be that Wheezy is too old. Coexistence with UEFI is still developing. However, Wheezy can handle GPT disks just fine. To test this, turn of UEFI in the BIOS and try the install again. To make things easier, first use Windows disk manager to shrink the Windows partition. Create a new partition in the free space and also leave a small empty (a few hundred megabytes) space somewhere for the EFI System Partition. Then start the Wheezy install. If that works, turn UEFI back on and try booting into both OSs. It is possible to install debian wheezy with uefi enabled, take a look: https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2014/03/msg01372.html and the subsequent answer by Andrew. -- André N. Batista GNUPG/PGP KEY: 6722CF80 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
UEFI install
I got a new laptop without a CD/DVD drive and am trying to install off a USB image and either dual boot my pre-installed windows 8.1 or just wipe and use strictly Debian. I get all the way to the point of installing GRUB and it fails. I've read that this may have something to do with the disk being GPT instead of MBR? How do I get a dual boot Windows 8.1 and Debian Wheezy install? Or at the least have Debian successfully installed (although I'm afraid of wiping the HDD and losing the ability to revert back to Windows) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/5350ab2d.10...@yahoo.com
Re: Debian + UEFI + Install w/ USB Key
On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 07:50:17PM +0200, Fran R. Guerrero wrote: I'm building my new system and I'm wishing to install Debian on it. It's reasonably new and the motherboard has this UEFI thing that pisses lots of people around. I'm no exception. I tried to install Debian Wheezy with a USB key, using the 'dd' way but, even trying different versions of the installer, I always got a Insert boot media message when trying to boot from the USB with (at least in theory) Debian installer on it. Anybody has any tip on how to correctly make a USB install working (booting, at least) on a UEFI motherboard*? Any issues with the current installer to take into account with UEFI, partition tables and so on? I did this recently with the current Debian installer RC. If you download the netinst or CD1 ISO image, you can simply dd it to the USB pendrive directly, and it will boot with UEFI or legacy BIOS. The hardest part was getting the key to boot. The main thing to look out for is that secure boot *must* be disabled or else you can't boot it. My ASUS board UEFI BIOS had some annoying bug whereby it was silently re-enabling it behind my back, causing countless frustration as I spent hours trying to make it boot. Also, if you can disable booting from legacy BIOS to ensure that only the UEFI boot method shows up (the pendrive will support both, but you can't install it properly unless you boot in UEFI mode). Another gotcha is that the chainloader can sometimes start booting from one medium and switch to another if you have multiple pendrives or CDs available; note that this is mainly an issue when secure boot is enabled, and it'll silently skip booting from an insecure medium. At least with my board, when I select the boot menu, there's a UEFI label/icon for UEFI boot methods. Good luck! It can certainly be done, but it might take a little experimentation to get the UEFI BIOS configured to allow it. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' schroot and sbuild http://alioth.debian.org/projects/buildd-tools `-GPG Public Key F33D 281D 470A B443 6756 147C 07B3 C8BC 4083 E800 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130422092528.gl1...@codelibre.net
Re: Debian + UEFI + Install w/ USB Key
Hi again,
thanks for the tips, Gary and Roger.
2013/4/22 Roger Leigh rle...@codelibre.net
I did this recently with the current Debian installer RC. If you
download the netinst or CD1 ISO image, you can simply dd it to
the USB pendrive directly, and it will boot with UEFI or legacy
BIOS.
That's correct! I tried RC1 and works like a charm! I did not use the 'dd
way', but the first method listed on
http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch04s03.html, that is with cat
{debianrc1.iso} /dev/sdX. It boots and install pretty nicely, I did not
find any bug.
The hardest part was getting the key to boot. The main thing to
look out for is that secure boot *must* be disabled or else
you can't boot it. My ASUS board UEFI BIOS had some annoying
bug whereby it was silently re-enabling it behind my back, causing
countless frustration as I spent hours trying to make it boot.
Also, if you can disable booting from legacy BIOS to ensure that
only the UEFI boot method shows up (the pendrive will support both,
but you can't install it properly unless you boot in UEFI mode).
Another gotcha is that the chainloader can sometimes start
booting from one medium and switch to another if you have
multiple pendrives or CDs available; note that this is mainly
an issue when secure boot is enabled, and it'll silently skip
booting from an insecure medium.
In my motherboard, at first I could not boot the good Debian RC1 key
because I had enabled Fast boot, which unables USB media for booting. I
noticed that after trying the 3 methods on the link above with no luck.
I'm so happy to be back on Debian!
Many thanks for the responses.
Kind regards,
Fran
Debian + UEFI + Install w/ USB Key
Hi list, I'm building my new system and I'm wishing to install Debian on it. It's reasonably new and the motherboard has this UEFI thing that pisses lots of people around. I'm no exception. I tried to install Debian Wheezy with a USB key, using the 'dd' way but, even trying different versions of the installer, I always got a Insert boot media message when trying to boot from the USB with (at least in theory) Debian installer on it. I have a laptop with Ubuntu installed and could manage to make a USB startup disk with its own utility (in the same key as I tried to put Debian on) and it boots OK and even lets me install Ubuntu 12.10 with no problems and boots in just 15 seconds (it is installed on a SSD drive). I read about the new Debian 7 installer solving some issues with UEFI hardware, but I think the problem of not booting the installer relies on the 'dd way' of setting up the USB key, because Ubuntu's tool at the end installs a bootloader and a persistent partition if you wish. Anybody has any tip on how to correctly make a USB install working (booting, at least) on a UEFI motherboard*? Any issues with the current installer to take into account with UEFI, partition tables and so on? Many thanks in advance for your time! Kind regards, Fran * the motherboard itself is an Asrock Z77 Extreme4-M, with no possibility of getting a BIOS 'downgrade'.
Re: Debian + UEFI + Install w/ USB Key
On 21/04/13 01:50 PM, Fran R. Guerrero wrote: Hi list, I'm building my new system and I'm wishing to install Debian on it. It's reasonably new and the motherboard has this UEFI thing that pisses lots of people around. I'm no exception. I tried to install Debian Wheezy with a USB key, using the 'dd' way but, even trying different versions of the installer, I always got a Insert boot media message when trying to boot from the USB with (at least in theory) Debian installer on it. I have a laptop with Ubuntu installed and could manage to make a USB startup disk with its own utility (in the same key as I tried to put Debian on) and it boots OK and even lets me install Ubuntu 12.10 with no problems and boots in just 15 seconds (it is installed on a SSD drive). I read about the new Debian 7 installer solving some issues with UEFI hardware, but I think the problem of not booting the installer relies on the 'dd way' of setting up the USB key, because Ubuntu's tool at the end installs a bootloader and a persistent partition if you wish. Anybody has any tip on how to correctly make a USB install working (booting, at least) on a UEFI motherboard*? Any issues with the current installer to take into account with UEFI, partition tables and so on? Many thanks in advance for your time! Kind regards, Fran * the motherboard itself is an Asrock Z77 Extreme4-M, with no possibility of getting a BIOS 'downgrade'. I'm not sure if dd actually works to produce a bootable USB stick. I note for example that systemrescuecd doesn't do that. It uses syslinux to put Linux onto the stick and has another program called install-mbr to create an MBR. unetbootin also doesn't just dd something to the key. Have you tried using it to create a bootable USB stick with your favourite distro? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/5174ab66.8040...@rogers.com
Re: UEFI install
On 28/11/12 03:21, Cody Smith wrote: I've had this issue in Ubuntu, and found the most reliable way is to use a UEFI Boot MANAGER (not Boot Loader) or put the EFI Shell Intel has provided onto a flash drive this way: /boot/efi/bootx64.efirename the shellx64.efi to bootx64.efi then put it in that path if you were able to install something like rEFInd on Windows 7, just select the efi mode of Debian (I can safely do the same for Ubuntu, though 12.10 doesn't need it, as EFI boot is the default boot for EFI systems, (this has me wondering if this can be pushed upstream to Debian) If you, like me, couldn't figure out how to install rEFInd on windows, then things are a bit more complicated, you'd have to boot from said flash drive, or the EFI shell if your computer has it, and then figure out the block device that is the Debian installation media, and the cd to the efi folder through a chain of cd's, and execute the .efi file you'll find there that represents the installer or GRUB, the EFI shell may look confusing because, well, it IS confusing for most, it's like mixing the syntax of BASH and cmd together and using the result. --c_smith I tried several options, including ReFINd, which launches grub, but grub did not boot wheezy. I'll switch back to BIOS. And write to debian-boot to signal the problem. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/50b8fb8f.1090...@rail.eu.org
UEFI install
I got a new Lenovo T530, I added a SSD as second disk, and now have a win7, UEFI boot on MBR partitionned sdb disk. I tried latest beta installer for wheezy (beta4), but it could not boot in UEFI mode (I got a text menu writtent on the right of the screen, then after selecting an entry Error, no suitable mode found, then reboot...) Is there a way for me to install a debian double boot without first reinstalling the windows ? (and if someone knows what and how I could report the UEFI boot problems to the D-I team, i'd be glad to give them all info I can). Thank you -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/50b518e3.2060...@rail.eu.org
Re: UEFI install
On 27/11/2012 20:50 Erwan David wrote: I got a new Lenovo T530, I added a SSD as second disk, and now have a win7, UEFI boot on MBR partitionned sdb disk. I tried latest beta installer for wheezy (beta4), but it could not boot in UEFI mode (I got a text menu writtent on the right of the screen, then after selecting an entry Error, no suitable mode found, then reboot...) Is there a way for me to install a debian double boot without first reinstalling the windows ? I recently had a simliar problem. I managed to install Debian by changing in the bios the boot method from UEFI the Legacy BIOS. Once Debian was up and running, I replaced the normal grub with grub-efi, changed the bios setting back to UEFI boot, and dual boot works now pretty good. Cheers, Simon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/k936h3$7tf$1...@news.albasani.net
Re: UEFI install
On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 08:47:47PM +0100, Erwan David wrote: I got a new Lenovo T530, I added a SSD as second disk, and now have a win7, UEFI boot on MBR partitionned sdb disk. I tried latest beta installer for wheezy (beta4), but it could not boot in UEFI mode (I got a text menu writtent on the right of the screen, then after selecting an entry Error, no suitable mode found, then reboot...) Is that immediately? Do you get a prompt to choose graphical install or text install (or rescue) first? If not, I guess the issue is grub2 failing to draw (it would appear d-i uses grub2 as part of its boot chain nowadays. I'm installing Debian via d-i beta4 as I write, incidentally, on a blank SSD. It's put a GPT table on and an EFI boot partition, w/o there being another OS.) Is there a way for me to install a debian double boot without first reinstalling the windows ? I'm sure we'll find a way :-) (and if someone knows what and how I could report the UEFI boot problems to the D-I team, i'd be glad to give them all info I can). It's worth doing so, either mail to debian-boot@ or a bug report (but I forget which package that should be filed against. Possibly installation-reports?) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20121127201633.GA19489@debian
Re: UEFI install
On 27/11/12 21:16, Jon Dowland wrote: On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 08:47:47PM +0100, Erwan David wrote: I got a new Lenovo T530, I added a SSD as second disk, and now have a win7, UEFI boot on MBR partitionned sdb disk. I tried latest beta installer for wheezy (beta4), but it could not boot in UEFI mode (I got a text menu writtent on the right of the screen, then after selecting an entry Error, no suitable mode found, then reboot...) Is that immediately? Do you get a prompt to choose graphical install or text install (or rescue) first? If not, I guess the issue is grub2 failing to draw (it would appear d-i uses grub2 as part of its boot chain nowadays. I'm installing Debian via d-i beta4 as I write, incidentally, on a blank SSD. It's put a GPT table on and an EFI boot partition, w/o there being another OS.) I get the prompt, the no mode suitable comes after choosing the text or graphical install. By the way the disk is not GPT but plain old DOS partition system. That might be a source of the problem. Other source might be the sdb disk (the SSD is in the extension bay, since the fixation is better inside the laptop body. Is there a way for me to install a debian double boot without first reinstalling the windows ? I'm sure we'll find a way :-) That's why I asked here... (and if someone knows what and how I could report the UEFI boot problems to the D-I team, i'd be glad to give them all info I can). It's worth doing so, either mail to debian-boot@ or a bug report (but I forget which package that should be filed against. Possibly installation-reports?) I note this, and I'll send them the problems once I get more tests and info. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/50b52304.9000...@rail.eu.org
Re: UEFI install
On 27/11/12 21:06, Simon Brandmair wrote: On 27/11/2012 20:50 Erwan David wrote: I got a new Lenovo T530, I added a SSD as second disk, and now have a win7, UEFI boot on MBR partitionned sdb disk. I tried latest beta installer for wheezy (beta4), but it could not boot in UEFI mode (I got a text menu writtent on the right of the screen, then after selecting an entry Error, no suitable mode found, then reboot...) Is there a way for me to install a debian double boot without first reinstalling the windows ? I recently had a simliar problem. I managed to install Debian by changing in the bios the boot method from UEFI the Legacy BIOS. Once Debian was up and running, I replaced the normal grub with grub-efi, changed the bios setting back to UEFI boot, and dual boot works now pretty good. Cheers, Simon I did not find any doc for setting efi boot that did not suppose boot was done on /dev/sda... Would using grub-install /dev/sdb then |efibootmgr -c -d /dev/sdb -l \\EFI\\debian\\grubx64.efi -L Debian GNU/Linux work ? | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/50b526d8.5070...@rail.eu.org
Re: Re: UEFI install
I've had this issue in Ubuntu, and found the most reliable way is to use a UEFI Boot MANAGER (not Boot Loader) or put the EFI Shell Intel has provided onto a flash drive this way: /boot/efi/bootx64.efirename the shellx64.efi to bootx64.efi then put it in that path if you were able to install something like rEFInd on Windows 7, just select the efi mode of Debian (I can safely do the same for Ubuntu, though 12.10 doesn't need it, as EFI boot is the default boot for EFI systems, (this has me wondering if this can be pushed upstream to Debian) If you, like me, couldn't figure out how to install rEFInd on windows, then things are a bit more complicated, you'd have to boot from said flash drive, or the EFI shell if your computer has it, and then figure out the block device that is the Debian installation media, and the cd to the efi folder through a chain of cd's, and execute the .efi file you'll find there that represents the installer or GRUB, the EFI shell may look confusing because, well, it IS confusing for most, it's like mixing the syntax of BASH and cmd together and using the result. --c_smith -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/50b57547.4050...@gmail.com
Re: UEFI install (was: Re: Squeeze install in ultrabooks with SSD and HDD)
Am Samstag, 11. August 2012 schrieb Greg Madden: Not sure about all the: - GPT + UEFI - MBR + UEFI - GPT + BIOS I just installed Wheezy and it seemed to install just like any other install I have done. Ah, so you are not sure its using UEFI at all? Do you have grub-pc or grub-efi-amd64 at work? Is there an EFI boot partition? Does Debian still boot when setting BIOS to UEFI only mode? If not, you are booting via BIOS. -- Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de GPG: 03B0 0D6C 0040 0710 4AFA B82F 991B EAAC A599 84C7 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201208121509.17236.mar...@lichtvoll.de
Re: UEFI install
Please quote instead of top-post. Am Freitag, 10. August 2012 schrieb Jerome BENOIT: On 10/08/12 11:17, Martin Steigerwald wrote: Am Donnerstag, 9. August 2012 schrieb Greg Madden: On Thursday 09 August 2012 4:37:05 am L V Gandhi wrote: On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 9:58 AM, Gary Dalegaryd...@rogers.com wrote: On 08/08/12 08:48 PM, L V Gandhi wrote: […] I think it is not so easy as I have googled it. Intel RST, UEFI etc making things difficult and many have bricked their system. Hence my post. I think the issues you read about are for Windows 8 and the 'secure boot' feature of the UEFI bios? I have not tried Squeeze, Wheezy works fine on a Thinkpad with the UEFI bios, SSD mSata. I think Squeeze does not support UEFI properly. It would at least need a 3.2 backport kernel What did you do to make it work? I have tried two times to get either of: - GPT + UEFI - MBR + UEFI - GPT + BIOS to work on a ThinkPad T520 and the only think that works right now is - MBR + BIOS […] Have you tried with Wheezy ? I am using Debian Sid here. But I didn´t try a new install since the initial install in Q2/2011. Thanks, -- Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de GPG: 03B0 0D6C 0040 0710 4AFA B82F 991B EAAC A599 84C7 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201208121511.23931.mar...@lichtvoll.de
Re: UEFI install (was: Re: Squeeze install in ultrabooks with SSD and HDD)
On Friday 10 August 2012 1:17:16 am Martin Steigerwald wrote: Am Donnerstag, 9. August 2012 schrieb Greg Madden: On Thursday 09 August 2012 4:37:05 am L V Gandhi wrote: On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 9:58 AM, Gary Dale garyd...@rogers.com wrote: On 08/08/12 08:48 PM, L V Gandhi wrote: Has any one installed dual boot system of windows and squeeze in ultrabooks with both mSATA SSD and HDD? Kindly give links or procedure to keep windows and linux. You don't have to do anything special. Just partition the disks the way you like. Linux installers normally expect that dual booting is a common requirement so they usually handle it pretty well. I think it is not so easy as I have googled it. Intel RST, UEFI etc making things difficult and many have bricked their system. Hence my post. I think the issues you read about are for Windows 8 and the 'secure boot' feature of the UEFI bios? I have not tried Squeeze, Wheezy works fine on a Thinkpad with the UEFI bios, SSD mSata. I think Squeeze does not support UEFI properly. It would at least need a 3.2 backport kernel What did you do to make it work? I have tried two times to get either of: - GPT + UEFI - MBR + UEFI - GPT + BIOS to work on a ThinkPad T520 and the only think that works right now is - MBR + BIOS My problem was that the UEFI boot menu never offered to boot from the EFI boot partition that I made. I think I might have been missing some efibootmgr magic that was explained here or elsewhere before, but as you managed to get to work, I´d like to know the exact steps or a link to a guide that works, before trying again. Why the GPT + BIOS stuff did not work is beyond me – I hat a BIOS boot partition for GRUB and grub-install also seemed to use it. I bet its not really faster tough since the ThinkPad doesn´t take much time in the BIOS anyway. And due to LVM I do not really need GPT, but it would be nice to have it anyway. I am not dual booting, I am using virtualization for the second OS. I have two ssd's, not at the same time, Win7 host and a Wheezy host. Not sure about all the: - GPT + UEFI - MBR + UEFI - GPT + BIOS I just installed Wheezy and it seemed to install just like any other install I have done. -- Peace, Greg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201208102258.05823.gomadtr...@gci.net
Re: UEFI install (was: Re: Squeeze install in ultrabooks with SSD and HDD)
On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 12:28 PM, Greg Madden gomadtr...@gci.net wrote: On Friday 10 August 2012 1:17:16 am Martin Steigerwald wrote: Am Donnerstag, 9. August 2012 schrieb Greg Madden: On Thursday 09 August 2012 4:37:05 am L V Gandhi wrote: On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 9:58 AM, Gary Dale garyd...@rogers.com wrote: On 08/08/12 08:48 PM, L V Gandhi wrote: Has any one installed dual boot system of windows and squeeze in ultrabooks with both mSATA SSD and HDD? Kindly give links or procedure to keep windows and linux. You don't have to do anything special. Just partition the disks the way you like. Linux installers normally expect that dual booting is a common requirement so they usually handle it pretty well. I think it is not so easy as I have googled it. Intel RST, UEFI etc making things difficult and many have bricked their system. Hence my post. I think the issues you read about are for Windows 8 and the 'secure boot' feature of the UEFI bios? I have not tried Squeeze, Wheezy works fine on a Thinkpad with the UEFI bios, SSD mSata. I think Squeeze does not support UEFI properly. It would at least need a 3.2 backport kernel What did you do to make it work? I have tried two times to get either of: - GPT + UEFI - MBR + UEFI - GPT + BIOS to work on a ThinkPad T520 and the only think that works right now is - MBR + BIOS My problem was that the UEFI boot menu never offered to boot from the EFI boot partition that I made. I think I might have been missing some efibootmgr magic that was explained here or elsewhere before, but as you managed to get to work, I´d like to know the exact steps or a link to a guide that works, before trying again. Why the GPT + BIOS stuff did not work is beyond me – I hat a BIOS boot partition for GRUB and grub-install also seemed to use it. I bet its not really faster tough since the ThinkPad doesn´t take much time in the BIOS anyway. And due to LVM I do not really need GPT, but it would be nice to have it anyway. I am not dual booting, I am using virtualization for the second OS. I have two ssd's, not at the same time, Win7 host and a Wheezy host. Not sure about all the: - GPT + UEFI - MBR + UEFI - GPT + BIOS I just installed Wheezy and it seemed to install just like any other install I have done. -- Peace, Greg Which vitualiation medium you used ie virtual box? -- L V Gandhi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/cafgxnzbummnghwqchyjw9qckvthcb5q1bd+g06rp1_gsl1r...@mail.gmail.com
UEFI install (was: Re: Squeeze install in ultrabooks with SSD and HDD)
Am Donnerstag, 9. August 2012 schrieb Greg Madden: On Thursday 09 August 2012 4:37:05 am L V Gandhi wrote: On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 9:58 AM, Gary Dale garyd...@rogers.com wrote: On 08/08/12 08:48 PM, L V Gandhi wrote: Has any one installed dual boot system of windows and squeeze in ultrabooks with both mSATA SSD and HDD? Kindly give links or procedure to keep windows and linux. You don't have to do anything special. Just partition the disks the way you like. Linux installers normally expect that dual booting is a common requirement so they usually handle it pretty well. I think it is not so easy as I have googled it. Intel RST, UEFI etc making things difficult and many have bricked their system. Hence my post. I think the issues you read about are for Windows 8 and the 'secure boot' feature of the UEFI bios? I have not tried Squeeze, Wheezy works fine on a Thinkpad with the UEFI bios, SSD mSata. I think Squeeze does not support UEFI properly. It would at least need a 3.2 backport kernel What did you do to make it work? I have tried two times to get either of: - GPT + UEFI - MBR + UEFI - GPT + BIOS to work on a ThinkPad T520 and the only think that works right now is - MBR + BIOS My problem was that the UEFI boot menu never offered to boot from the EFI boot partition that I made. I think I might have been missing some efibootmgr magic that was explained here or elsewhere before, but as you managed to get to work, I´d like to know the exact steps or a link to a guide that works, before trying again. Why the GPT + BIOS stuff did not work is beyond me – I hat a BIOS boot partition for GRUB and grub-install also seemed to use it. I bet its not really faster tough since the ThinkPad doesn´t take much time in the BIOS anyway. And due to LVM I do not really need GPT, but it would be nice to have it anyway. Thanks, -- Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de GPG: 03B0 0D6C 0040 0710 4AFA B82F 991B EAAC A599 84C7 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201208101117.16259.mar...@lichtvoll.de
Re: UEFI install
Have you tried with Wheezy ? On 10/08/12 11:17, Martin Steigerwald wrote: Am Donnerstag, 9. August 2012 schrieb Greg Madden: On Thursday 09 August 2012 4:37:05 am L V Gandhi wrote: On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 9:58 AM, Gary Dalegaryd...@rogers.com wrote: On 08/08/12 08:48 PM, L V Gandhi wrote: Has any one installed dual boot system of windows and squeeze in ultrabooks with both mSATA SSD and HDD? Kindly give links or procedure to keep windows and linux. You don't have to do anything special. Just partition the disks the way you like. Linux installers normally expect that dual booting is a common requirement so they usually handle it pretty well. I think it is not so easy as I have googled it. Intel RST, UEFI etc making things difficult and many have bricked their system. Hence my post. I think the issues you read about are for Windows 8 and the 'secure boot' feature of the UEFI bios? I have not tried Squeeze, Wheezy works fine on a Thinkpad with the UEFI bios, SSD mSata. I think Squeeze does not support UEFI properly. It would at least need a 3.2 backport kernel What did you do to make it work? I have tried two times to get either of: - GPT + UEFI - MBR + UEFI - GPT + BIOS to work on a ThinkPad T520 and the only think that works right now is - MBR + BIOS My problem was that the UEFI boot menu never offered to boot from the EFI boot partition that I made. I think I might have been missing some efibootmgr magic that was explained here or elsewhere before, but as you managed to get to work, I´d like to know the exact steps or a link to a guide that works, before trying again. Why the GPT + BIOS stuff did not work is beyond me – I hat a BIOS boot partition for GRUB and grub-install also seemed to use it. I bet its not really faster tough since the ThinkPad doesn´t take much time in the BIOS anyway. And due to LVM I do not really need GPT, but it would be nice to have it anyway. Thanks, -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/5024d295.2000...@rezozer.net
