Hello Dann, First, elilo -C \EFI\debian\elilo.conf works correctly.
But elilo -v --efiboot failed to create the Linux entry in the EFI boot menu. The problem was due to a missing BootCurrent-... variable in /proc/efi/var. This missing variable was successfully created after I upgraded elilo and efibootmgr as you suggested in your mail. Thank you. Le mar 20/01/2004 Ã 16:53, dann frazier a Ãcrit : > On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 02:42:14PM +0100, Emeric Maschino wrote: > > Hi there, > > > > I have a question regarding the boot process of Woody on an IA-64 > > platform. Where should the kernel images and elilo.* files go? > > any efi partition should do. > > > When asking to make the system bootable during the Woody installation > > process, I choose to install elilo on /dev/sdb1. I can briefly see a > > efibootmgr error message just before the reboot process starts. At boot > > up, there's no Debian entry in the EFI menu (might be related to the > > efibootmgr error I think). > > Once you get into the os, try using a newer version of efibootmgr: > http://free.linux.external.hp.com/~dannf/efibootmgr/ > > Then try running /usr/sbin/elilo with the --format flag (which will wipe > sdb1). > > > So, using the EFI shell, I navigate through > > fs1:\EFI\debian and manually enter elilo with no luck. I'm given an > > error about a missing vmlinux file. This path however contains > > elilo.conf, elilo.efi, README and vmlinuz. Trying to rename vmlinuz to > > vmlinux doesn't solve the problem. Moving all these files in fs1:\EFI > > changes nothing but moving them to fs1:\ makes the system bootable. > > Really stange because in my elilo.conf file, all paths are related to > > EFI/debian. > > do this: > fs1: > cd \efi\debian > elilo -C \efi\debian\elilo.conf > > > Any idea what's wrong with elilo and why the boot entry isn't created? > > I'm guessing an old version of efibootmgr that doesn't happen to work > w/ your config. > Le mar 20/01/2004 Ã 16:53, dann frazier a Ãcrit : > On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 02:42:14PM +0100, Emeric Maschino wrote: > > Hi there, > > > > I have a question regarding the boot process of Woody on an IA-64 > > platform. Where should the kernel images and elilo.* files go? > > any efi partition should do. > > > When asking to make the system bootable during the Woody installation > > process, I choose to install elilo on /dev/sdb1. I can briefly see a > > efibootmgr error message just before the reboot process starts. At boot > > up, there's no Debian entry in the EFI menu (might be related to the > > efibootmgr error I think). > > Once you get into the os, try using a newer version of efibootmgr: > http://free.linux.external.hp.com/~dannf/efibootmgr/ > > Then try running /usr/sbin/elilo with the --format flag (which will wipe > sdb1). > > > So, using the EFI shell, I navigate through > > fs1:\EFI\debian and manually enter elilo with no luck. I'm given an > > error about a missing vmlinux file. This path however contains > > elilo.conf, elilo.efi, README and vmlinuz. Trying to rename vmlinuz to > > vmlinux doesn't solve the problem. Moving all these files in fs1:\EFI > > changes nothing but moving them to fs1:\ makes the system bootable. > > Really stange because in my elilo.conf file, all paths are related to > > EFI/debian. > > do this: > fs1: > cd \efi\debian > elilo -C \efi\debian\elilo.conf > > > Any idea what's wrong with elilo and why the boot entry isn't created? > > I'm guessing an old version of efibootmgr that doesn't happen to work > w/ your config. >
