Re: efi and lenny installer not working on new IBM hardware
On Tue, Nov 03, 2009 at 09:12:41AM -0500, Jean Robertson wrote:
> I have been the happy recipient of a new IBM x3650 M2 (7947 AC1).
Well certainly the x3650 (not M2) model 7979 EHU has no such problems.
Ouch that seems like a potentially problematic change.
> It seems that IBM has decided that EFI is "the way to go".
>
> A straight forward lenny install from CD does not permit a reboot.
>
> Does anyone have any tips on how to set up the machine properly so that it can
> boot by itself?
Wow that's interesting. What versions of windows installer can boot on
that then?
Certainly grub2 supports efi, so quite likely the next debian release
will work with it, but that doesn't help you right now.
Strangely given the OSs that seem to be supported (like win2003) I find
it odd that debian won't boot on it.
Does it try to boot and fail or does it not even try to boot from the CD?
If it installs but then doesn't boot, well that makes sense. grub does
not work with efi. Grub2 does I believe. elilo is another option.
If this is the case, you just have to use a different boot loader than
the default one in Lenny. I run grub2 on lenny on an 3650 (not M2)
because I have a 2.25TB array and DOS partitions only support up to 2TB
so I use GPT instead.
Lenny has a package available called 'grub-efi' which might be just what
you need. Probably have to go to console 2 at the end of the install
after it installs the boot loader and do:
chroot /target
apt-get install grub-efi
and then do whatever grub-efi requires for the setup.
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Len Sorensen
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