On 4/30/19 4:15 PM, Pedro Miguel Justo wrote: > Fair enough. This is what I have been doing since forever with ELILO tho. It > is very convenient because I can just transfer the package to the EFI > partition and remote-start it, all via iLO. Since ELILO is (was) all > path-relative, everything works irrespective of where the bundle got > extracted to.
Okay, I wasn't aware that you were going this way. Please always include your individual steps of your installation procedure that I understand what you did. > Again it seems as the GRUB version that comes with netinst is incapable of > parsing the GPT partition scheme. Once I replaced the EFI executable alone, > everything worked and I was able to bootstrap the setup process. I do realize > that the reason the original executable may not be parsing the GPT is because > it might not be finding the modules present in the grub/ia64-efi folder. What did you replace the EFI executable with? I'm not sure I understand what you mean. > Meanwhile I also tried the latest CD on my Alpha LX164 and I got stuck very > early in setup. It appears as the CMD64x module is not present in the CD > Debian-installer. This is the EDI controller on many EV56 motherboards. > Without it setup can’t recognize the disk or the cdrom. Please don't post Alpha-related stuff to the ia64 list. Also, I would like to solve one problem after another as debugging debian-installer issues with very time-consuming. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - [email protected] `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - [email protected] `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
