Re: Wheezy on UEFI
On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 10:08 PM, Darren Baginski <kickbsd@yandex.com> 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 ?
For the archives: it's grub-efi and grub-efi-amd64 (not -uefi).
As Andrei pointed out, you might want to ask on debian-boot. I'd add
that you might want to ask whether they could use the Ubuntu
grub-installer patch that detects BIOS/UEFI and installs the
appropriate grub.
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