Re: [CentOS] CentOS6: HELP! EFI boot fails after replacing disks...

2018-05-29 Thread Robert Heller
At Tue, 29 May 2018 11:35:39 -0400 CentOS mailing list wrote: > > Robert Heller wrote: > > At Tue, 29 May 2018 06:47:06 -0700 CentOS mailing list > > wrote: > >> On 05/29/2018 06:33 AM, Robert Heller wrote: > >> > > >> >> The UUID in the EFI boot options is > >> >>

Re: [CentOS] CentOS6: HELP! EFI boot fails after replacing disks...

2018-05-29 Thread m . roth
Robert Heller wrote: > At Tue, 29 May 2018 06:47:06 -0700 CentOS mailing list > wrote: >> On 05/29/2018 06:33 AM, Robert Heller wrote: >> > >> >> The UUID in the EFI boot options is >> >> 99E275E7-75A0-4B37-A2E6-C5385E600CB, which >> >> does not to match anything, but the system is only happy

Re: [CentOS] CentOS6: HELP! EFI boot fails after replacing disks...

2018-05-29 Thread Robert Heller
At Tue, 29 May 2018 06:47:06 -0700 CentOS mailing list wrote: > > On 05/29/2018 06:33 AM, Robert Heller wrote: > > > >> The UUID in the EFI boot options is 99E275E7-75A0-4B37-A2E6-C5385E600CB, > >> which > >> does not to match anything, but the system is only happy booting the old > >>

Re: [CentOS] CentOS6: HELP! EFI boot fails after replacing disks...

2018-05-29 Thread Robert Heller
At Tue, 29 May 2018 10:03:07 -0400 CentOS mailing list wrote: > > On 28 May 2018 at 18:25, Robert Heller wrote: > > > Then I shut the machine down, swapped in the new backup [2TB] disk and > > pulled > > the old system [500G] disk and installed the third new [2TB] disk. The > > system > >

Re: [CentOS] CentOS6: HELP! EFI boot fails after replacing disks...

2018-05-29 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 28 May 2018 at 18:25, Robert Heller wrote: > Then I shut the machine down, swapped in the new backup [2TB] disk and pulled > the old system [500G] disk and installed the third new [2TB] disk. The system > won't boot that way. It seems there is something in the UEFI (secure boot) > logic that

Re: [CentOS] CentOS6: HELP! EFI boot fails after replacing disks...

2018-05-29 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 05/29/2018 06:33 AM, Robert Heller wrote: The UUID in the EFI boot options is 99E275E7-75A0-4B37-A2E6-C5385E600CB, which does not to match anything, but the system is only happy booting the old disk... And at this point, it will only boot in legacy mode off the old disk. That's what I

Re: [CentOS] CentOS6: HELP! EFI boot fails after replacing disks...

2018-05-29 Thread Robert Heller
At Tue, 29 May 2018 08:10:39 -0400 (EDT) CentOS mailing list wrote: > > > At Mon, 28 May 2018 20:49:54 -0700 CentOS mailing list > wrote: > > > > > On 05/28/2018 06:20 PM, Robert Heller wrote: > > > The UUID in the BIOS is NOT VFAT volume. It is something completely > > > different. I

Re: [CentOS] CentOS6: HELP! EFI boot fails after replacing disks...

2018-05-29 Thread Robert Heller
At Mon, 28 May 2018 20:49:54 -0700 CentOS mailing list wrote: > > On 05/28/2018 06:20 PM, Robert Heller wrote: > > The UUID in the BIOS is NOT VFAT volume. It is something completely > > different. I have no clue what it is -- it does not correspond to anything > > I > > can find. > > >

Re: [CentOS] CentOS6: HELP! EFI boot fails after replacing disks...

2018-05-29 Thread Robert Heller
At Mon, 28 May 2018 20:54:32 -0700 CentOS mailing list wrote: > > On 05/28/2018 06:58 PM, Robert Heller wrote: > > At Mon, 28 May 2018 18:23:42 -0700 CentOS mailing list > > wrote: > >> On 05/28/2018 03:25 PM, Robert Heller wrote: > >>> I tried to run efibootmgr, but it wants a model named

Re: [CentOS] CentOS6: HELP! EFI boot fails after replacing disks...

2018-05-28 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 05/28/2018 06:58 PM, Robert Heller wrote: At Mon, 28 May 2018 18:23:42 -0700 CentOS mailing list wrote: On 05/28/2018 03:25 PM, Robert Heller wrote: I tried to run efibootmgr, but it wants a model named efivars loaded, but there is no such module available.

Re: [CentOS] CentOS6: HELP! EFI boot fails after replacing disks...

2018-05-28 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 05/28/2018 06:20 PM, Robert Heller wrote: The UUID in the BIOS is NOT VFAT volume. It is something completely different. I have no clue what it is -- it does not correspond to anything I can find. It should be the UUID of the partition, not of the VFAT volume. The partition UUID is

Re: [CentOS] CentOS6: HELP! EFI boot fails after replacing disks...

2018-05-28 Thread Robert Heller
At Mon, 28 May 2018 18:23:42 -0700 CentOS mailing list wrote: > > On 05/28/2018 03:25 PM, Robert Heller wrote: > > I tried to run efibootmgr, but it wants a model named efivars loaded, but > > there is no such module available. > > That's interesting.  Can you post the command and output

Re: [CentOS] CentOS6: HELP! EFI boot fails after replacing disks...

2018-05-28 Thread Robert Heller
At Mon, 28 May 2018 18:23:42 -0700 CentOS mailing list wrote: > > On 05/28/2018 03:25 PM, Robert Heller wrote: > > I tried to run efibootmgr, but it wants a model named efivars loaded, but > > there is no such module available. > > That's interesting.  Can you post the command and output

Re: [CentOS] CentOS6: HELP! EFI boot fails after replacing disks...

2018-05-28 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 05/28/2018 03:25 PM, Robert Heller wrote: I tried to run efibootmgr, but it wants a model named efivars loaded, but there is no such module available. That's interesting.  Can you post the command and output where you see that? Also, post the output of "dmesg | grep efi:" and "ls

Re: [CentOS] CentOS6: HELP! EFI boot fails after replacing disks...

2018-05-28 Thread Robert Heller
At Mon, 28 May 2018 19:30:25 -0400 CentOS mailing list wrote: > > On May 28, 2018, at 18:25, Robert Heller wrote: > > > I tried to run efibootmgr, but it wants a model named efivars loaded, but > > there is no such module available. > > Are you not running a CentOS kernel? That module

Re: [CentOS] CentOS6: HELP! EFI boot fails after replacing disks...

2018-05-28 Thread Jonathan Billings
On May 28, 2018, at 18:25, Robert Heller wrote: > I tried to run efibootmgr, but it wants a model named efivars loaded, but > there is no such module available. Are you not running a CentOS kernel? That module should be available. The UUID of the VFAT volume (not the mirror) would be used

Re: [CentOS] CentOS6: HELP! EFI boot fails after replacing disks...

2018-05-28 Thread T BkRl
No fix here, but I've had this issue for a while, only "fix" is not booting with UEFI apparently. From: CentOS on behalf of Robert Heller Sent: Monday, May 28, 2018 6:43:22 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] CentOS6: HELP! EFI boot f

Re: [CentOS] CentOS6: HELP! EFI boot fails after replacing disks...

2018-05-28 Thread Robert Heller
OK, one other tidbit: The EFI BIOS has a UUID in its boot options. I expect that this identifies the old system disk, but I don't know where that UUID comes from. It is NOT the VFAT UUID for the EFI partition and is not any of the UUIDs for any of the Linux file systems or RAID arrays, or

[CentOS] CentOS6: HELP! EFI boot fails after replacing disks...

2018-05-28 Thread Robert Heller
OK, I wanted to replace the 500G disks in a Dell T20 server with new 2TB disks. The machine has 4 SATA ports, one used for the optical disk and three for the hard drives. It is set up with /dev/sda and /dev/sdb with each three partitions: 1 -- VFAT (for EFI) 2 -- ext4 (for /boot) 3 -- LVM