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Re: EFI approach and patches



The debian entry that was made during install broke eighter on windows install or Asus boot menu just wouldn't get it running. I wasn't sure could I use efi recovery boot selection to install grub again automatically? Does it work so or is it just for manual recovery with the system loaded as efi and using console to setup grub again?

Anyhow I got it working now all together. Grub2-efi is loading at first and then I can chainload win7 bootloader. The installer and grub probe didn't find the win7 automatically though.

Now efibootmgrs got the debian entry that was generated at install as 2 but it didn't work after windows install. I got it working after making a new entry 0000 for Uefi and installing grub again with these instructions.

http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=81120

The output now:
BootCurrent: 0000
Timeout: 3 seconds
BootOrder: 0000,0002,0003,0005,0001
Boot0000* Debian GNU/Linux
Boot0001  Hard Drive
Boot0002* debian
Boot0003* Windows Boot Manager
Boot0005* CD/DVD Drive

I also read somewhere that I might run into trouble again when Win7 updates itself. So I think I will keep your efi install cd near and use it for recovering again if I run into trouble. :)

-- Mika

On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 7:05 PM, Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com> wrote:
Mika Rastas wrote:
>Nice work Steve,

*grin* Thanks!

>And just in time for me. I bought a UEFI system second hand and got it
>from mail on Friday. Its got a ASUS Sabertooth 990FX board with the
>newest bios.
>
>I installed with your third version of the installer and it worked.

Awesome.

>Though still having trouble with double booting to win7 and Asus
>bootmgr. It boots win7 loader, but doesn't find the grub one. I can get
>it to load grub from my debian install when I efi-boot with your cd and
>load the config file to that grub from hd. Well getting off topic so
>finishing.

What does efibootmgr say once you've got your system booted into
Debian?

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