Re: "No EFI partition was found" with Beta3

[Carolin Latze <latze@angry-red-pla.net>]

Hi Steve

it seems that my mail did not make it to the list. Probably because of 
the attachment. I uploaded the syslog into my Google account: 
https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B76y8AchxWAIVUxUQWJOTDlLaU0

Hope that helps
Carolin

On 11/04/2012 03:56 PM, Carolin Latze wrote:
> Hi Steve
>
> sorry I have to come back to this problem although I thought all those 
> failures were caused by myself. This time I am sure that the installer 
> does not like my board ;)
>
> I have a Gigabyte B75M-D3H main board and installed a fresh Win7 UEFI 
> on a 1TB disk. That worked well. Now I installed Debian (using the 
> beta3 amd64 installer) and ran into the "No EFI partition was found" 
> error again. In the partitioning tool I see the Windows EFI partition, 
> but the installer is not able to detect it. When the error occurred 
> again, I pulled the syslog (it is attached to this mail). I hope it 
> helps to debug and find the problem.
>
> best regards
> Carolin
>
> On 09/03/2012 12:10 PM, Steve McIntyre wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 03, 2012 at 11:51:14AM +0200, Carolin Latze wrote:
> > > > OK, thanks for that. Hmmm, not quite sure why it's not using the
> > > > existing partition here. Do you have anything important on the Debian
> > > > system yet? Could you try a reinstall and grab the syslog off for me
> > > > please?
> > > Yes, ok, I can do that. I will use another HD, and reinstall the same
> > > setup there. By doing that I can also be sure that error did not 
> > > come up
> > > due to a mistake I made :-)
> > *grin*
> >
> > > What do you want me to do in detail? Use the EFI installer, don't 
> > > create
> > > an EFI boot partition and if the error shows up, create one, finish
> > > installation and send the syslog to you?
> > Ish. Please run the installation again, at least up until the point
> > where it recognises (or not) the Windows EFI boot partition. If you
> > can send logs at that point, that would be great. You'll probably need
> > to copy them off onto the hard drive somewhere else, or onto a USB
> > stick. I'm hoping there will be a clue in the logfile, then I'll
> > probably give you replacements for a couple of the installer packages
> > or a new image with more debug in the right area. OK?
> >
> > Thanks for helping with this, it's invaluable.