Following up to the in person conversation at DebConf 26 https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/debian-installer/-/merge_requests/7
as stated verbally, I have no idea if ,my attempt is close to propper I am willing to riggorsly test whatever is proposed. On Tue, Mar 10, 2026 at 9:47 PM Carl Karsten <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Tue, Mar 10, 2026 at 6:45 PM Steve McIntyre <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Tue, Mar 10, 2026 at 01:23:28PM -0500, Carl Karsten wrote: >> >my guess is I needed: >> >\EFI\boot\bootx64.efi >> >qemu... no change >> > >> >just to be sure, I put it everwhere: >> > >> >$ find /tmp/mk_hd_grub/img -iname *.efi >> >/tmp/mk_hd_grub/img/bootnetx64.efi >> >/tmp/mk_hd_grub/img/boot/grub/grubx64.efi >> >/tmp/mk_hd_grub/img/boot/grub/bootx64.efi >> >/tmp/mk_hd_grub/img/boot/grubx64.efi >> >/tmp/mk_hd_grub/img/boot/bootx64.efi >> >/tmp/mk_hd_grub/img/EFI/BOOT/grubx64.efi >> >/tmp/mk_hd_grub/img/EFI/BOOT/bootx64.efi >> >/tmp/mk_hd_grub/img/EFI/grubx64.efi >> >/tmp/mk_hd_grub/img/EFI/bootx64.efi >> >/tmp/mk_hd_grub/img/grubx64.efi >> >/tmp/mk_hd_grub/img/bootx64.efi >> >> What partition layout and filesystem type do you have there? UEFI >> wants the EFI system partition to be FAT, and ideally tagged as type >> EF on an MBR scheme or EF00 on GPT. >> >> > I would expect efi-image and gen-hd-image is doing the right thing: > > > https://salsa.debian.org/carlfk-guest/debian-installer/-/blob/hd-grub/build/util/mk_hd_grub.sh#L39-47 > > sfdisk --dump ${img_name} > label: dos > > label-id: 0x69b05fcf > device: /tmp/mk_hd_grub/hd-grub.img > > unit: sectors > > sector-size: 512 > /tmp/mk_hd_grub/hd-grub.img1 : start= 2048, size= 157952, > type=c, bootable > > > >> >I need modules to boot the installer >> >grubnetx64-installer.efi.signed has installer in the name, but I'm >> guessing >> >that isn't my problem, yet. >> >> Yeah, see when you get a bit further. :-) >> >> -- >> Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. >> [email protected] >> You raise the blade, you make the change... You re-arrange me 'til I'm >> sane... >> >> > > -- > Carl K > -- Carl K
