Re: EFI failed on HP machine
[ re-adding debian-boot, let's keep ths on the list please! ]
On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 07:18:21PM +0000, Guimarães Faria Corcete DUTRA, Leandro wrote:
>2012/8/23 Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com>:
>> l@dutras.org wrote:
>>>I have just tried the grub-efi installer on an EFI HP machine, an HP
>>>Compaq Elite 8200. Everything seems to go OK, but on boot I get only
>>>a blinking cursor.
>>
>> Is this using my new EFI installer CD build
>
>Yes!
Great, thanks for helping to test it!
>> If so, I'd try using the rescue option from the menu to get into
>> the system. From there, you can see what's been installed
>
>What should I look for? I see /boot & /boot/efi are both empty, I
>even had to mkdir /boot/efi to be able to mount it.
Oh. :-(
>> and what the EFI boot order is meant to
>> be using efibootmgr.
>
>It puts first my newly-installed system.
OK, that's expected. I'm surprised you're not seeing anything come up then.
>Should I try elilo instead?
Not sure that'll help.
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Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. steve@einval.com
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