Hi Steve/All,
Summary of what I have understood after going thro related things over
the last few days.
NOTE: This is my understanding, anyone using this info, should cross
checking things on their own before experiment on their samsung laptop.
Unless others (who understand this fully) can also
And just for completeness of info in my last post, use of refind boot
manager could be a usefull thing for people manually
installing/configuring the boot process in the uefi setup. However I
dont think by default it allows the secure boot chain to be passed down
to the kernel, unless one
Hi Steve,
NOTE: After some initial glance across the different things involved
here.
If I am not wrong after reading the noefi related bugfix changelog as
well as looking at
a) samsung-laptop.c (The original patch for efi bug - return failure on
EFI_BOOT being set)
b) efi.c (The changes done
Hi Steve/CluedInDevs,
NOTE: I haven't really looked at ACPI and UEFI till date. Only today I
have done some initial glance thro UEFI and done some code browsing. So
may be I am off by 100 miles, correct me if that is the case.
One thing which I haven't fully cross checked/figured yet is how EFI
Hi Steve/CluedInDevs,
Based on bit more grepping, I think I have part of the answer, at the
same time another part still seems to be a potential issue !!! However
please do correct my understanding, even if I am fully wrong also.
a) I notice that efivars.c has a pstore logic and using noefi will
Hi Steve/Colin/CluedInPeople,
I have a query related to the FIx. Shouldn't the right fix for this bug
if one wants to use secure boot and uefi to boot their system be the
noefi boot param related fix added to linux kernels around 15th Feb i.e
commit 1de63d60cd5b0d33a812efa455d5933bf1564a51
Hi All,
Just to be sure, the relavent bug fix I am talking about is this
commit 266c43c175a51002b04c18a453a39708d1775ced
Author: Satoru Takeuchi takeuchi_sat...@jp.fujitsu.com
Date: Thu Feb 14 09:12:52 2013 +0900
efi: Clear EFI_RUNTIME_SERVICES rather than EFI_BOOT by noefi boot
parameter
Another set of problems I am finding with elilo in Karmic 9.10 on Mac
book pro 5.1 is
It fails to find the console interface and UGA interface initially (This
also includes corresponding failed to get handles: Invalid parameters
error). This is before the elilo prompt.
THen on pressing enter or
Same issue with even Karmic Final release on MBP 5.1.
On enabling Verbose mode, I found that it was failing with Kernel file
not found ... error. Even when I downloaded the latest elilo-3.12
source code and gnu-efi source code and compiled myself, I got the same
error Kernel file not found.
