Re: efi and lenny installer not working on new IBM hardware
On November 3, 2009 10:48:33 am Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> 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?
We have successfully installed Windows Server 2008.
The salesman says that this is the only EFI aware O/S that will work.
Additionally, the IBM web site says that RedHat and SuSE are installable.
I tried Redhat and that installed just fine, but could not reboot from disk.
> 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?
It boots just fine from the CD.
It installs just fine.
Its just that when it does its "grub-install" step, it does not successfully
install a bootloader.
> 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.
I have set up PXE net booting.
This is my workaround.
> 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.
I tried that. Did not work.
I will try to use grub2
Jean
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