On Thu, Oct 31, 2019 at 8:16 PM Branden Waldner <[email protected]> wrote:

> I tested Nico's method for you with a Debian bios install, but it
> might be different for the Manjaro live usb.
>
> To stall grub from booting, you can press the left arrow key
> repeatedly, assuming that doesn't mess with tianocore loading first.
>

any key press other than enter will likely cause Tianocore to enter the
UEFI settings menu


> Then you press e to edit the boot parameters. For my debian/grub2
> install the kernel line was 14 lines down, so you just press the down
> 14 times. Then press end to go to the end of the line and add a space
> and iomem=relaxed and press ctrl+x or F10 to boot.
>
> As for rescue systems with flashrom neither grml (debian based rescue
> usb) or the old gentoo based systemrescuecd worked for me without
> adding iomem=relaxed. Most live systems seem to use a udf/iso setup
> making it hard to just edit the kernel command line directly. The old
> systemrescuecd actually uses a fat formatted partition and would let
> you edit it, but it is more complicated to set up then the usual
> livecds.
>
> You could also probably just chroot into your primary manjaro install
> from your live usb and then install the efi version of grub2 and use
> your extra usb as the boot drive, possibly copying over your /boot
> directory as well.
>
> Of course, just installing a full system to the extra usb with a ufi
> bootloader like you said you already did should have worked as well.
> Does tianocore use/respect using boot/bootx64.efi?


yes, it by default will boot /EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.EFI (case sensitive on ext
filesystems)


> If so, you could
> copy grubx64.efi which should be on your efi partition, probably in a
> directory called manjaro, into a new directory called boot and rename
> it to bootx64.efi. See
>
> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GRUB2#Alternative:_using_the_default_UEFI_firmware_location
> or https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GRUB#Default/fallback_boot_path
> for more information on that.
>
> That seems like a lot of rambling. Hopefully some of it helps you though.
>
> Branden
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