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Re: Wheezy on UEFI



On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 10:47 PM, Jerome BENOIT <g6299304p@rezozer.net> wrote:
> On 11/07/12 04:08, Darren Baginski wrote:
>>
>> Today I have installed Wheezy on UEFI system, Asus UX31A to be more
>> particular.
>> While installing I faced some issues.
>> Looks like installer can't recognize and do not ask whenever system is
>> BIOS or UEFI and installs grub-pc,
>> while grub-uefi required in such case. Thus making system unbootable.
>> One need to 'fix' it from the bootable cd/usb.
>> After manually installing grub-uefi-amd64 and running
>> `grub-install --bootloader-id=debian`
>> you have to run
>> `modprobe efivars`
>> `efibootmgr -c -l '\efi\debian\grubx64.efi' -L Debian`
>> and then remove/edit boot entries with `efibootmgr -B -b NNNNN`
>>
>> I found those steps not so easy to perform for many users and bielive such
>> functionality should be intergrated
>> in to the Debian installer.
>> My question is there a work in progress on that? If so, how can I help ?
>
> There is actually a discussion about it on the debian-devel list.

Please bottom-post.

That discussion isn't about UEFI but about UEFI's Secure Boot feature.


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