Re: EFI approach and patches

2012-09-05 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Mon, Sep 03, 2012 at 12:16:37AM +0300, Mika wrote: The debian entry that was made during install broke eighter on windows install or Asus boot menu just wouldn't get it running. I wasn't sure could I use efi recovery boot selection to install grub again automatically? Does it work so or is it

Re: EFI approach and patches

2012-09-02 Thread Mika Rastas
Nice work Steve, And just in time for me. I bought a UEFI system second hand and got it from mail on Friday. Its got a ASUS Sabertooth 990FX board with the newest bios. I installed with your third version of the installer and it worked. Though still having trouble with double booting to win7

Re: EFI approach and patches

2012-09-02 Thread Steve McIntyre
Mika Rastas wrote: Nice work Steve, *grin* Thanks! And just in time for me. I bought a UEFI system second hand and got it from mail on Friday. Its got a ASUS Sabertooth 990FX board with the newest bios. I installed with your third version of the installer and it worked. Awesome. Though still

Re: EFI approach and patches

2012-09-02 Thread Mika
The debian entry that was made during install broke eighter on windows install or Asus boot menu just wouldn't get it running. I wasn't sure could I use efi recovery boot selection to install grub again automatically? Does it work so or is it just for manual recovery with the system loaded as efi

Re: EFI approach and patches

2012-09-02 Thread Mika
Dough of course the verbose output is nicer. /home# efibootmgr -v BootCurrent: Timeout: 3 seconds BootOrder: ,0002,0003,0005,0001 Boot* Debian GNU/Linux HD(3,613a4800,f4000,ea481e18-9503-404e-84ed-088f005a3ee1)File(\EFI\debian\grubx64.efi) Boot0001 Hard DriveBIOS(2,0,00)P0: WDC

Re: EFI approach and patches

2012-08-13 Thread Bastian Blank
On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 01:10:31AM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: 1. Add a new subarch of efi for i386 and amd64 in libdebian-installer, worked out (as usual for EFI) from whether /sys/firmware/efi is accessible. This filters through readily to archdetect, used all over the place

Re: EFI approach and patches

2012-08-13 Thread Steve McIntyre
wa...@debian.org wrote: On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 01:10:31AM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: 1. Add a new subarch of efi for i386 and amd64 in libdebian-installer, worked out (as usual for EFI) from whether /sys/firmware/efi is accessible. This filters through readily to archdetect, used

EFI approach and patches

2012-08-12 Thread Steve McIntyre
Hi folks, So, I've got EFI working in d-i, after a fashion. Here's a summary of the changes I made. Feel free to suggest better ways of doing things, but here's what I've got so far. Patches attached. 1. Add a new subarch of efi for i386 and amd64 in libdebian-installer, worked out (as usual