Re: elilo and boot entry problems
Hello Dann,
First, elilo -C \EFI\debian\elilo.conf works correctly.
But elilo -v --efiboot failed to create the Linux entry in the EFI boot
menu. The problem was due to a missing BootCurrent-... variable in
/proc/efi/var. This missing variable was successfully created after I
upgraded elilo and efibootmgr as you suggested in your mail.
Thank you.
Le mar 20/01/2004 à 16:53, dann frazier a écrit :
> On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 02:42:14PM +0100, Emeric Maschino wrote:
> > Hi there,
> >
> > I have a question regarding the boot process of Woody on an IA-64
> > platform. Where should the kernel images and elilo.* files go?
>
> any efi partition should do.
>
> > When asking to make the system bootable during the Woody
installation
> > process, I choose to install elilo on /dev/sdb1. I can briefly see a
> > efibootmgr error message just before the reboot process starts. At
boot
> > up, there's no Debian entry in the EFI menu (might be related to the
> > efibootmgr error I think).
>
> Once you get into the os, try using a newer version of efibootmgr:
> http://free.linux.external.hp.com/~dannf/efibootmgr/
>
> Then try running /usr/sbin/elilo with the --format flag (which will
wipe
> sdb1).
>
> > So, using the EFI shell, I navigate through
> > fs1:\EFI\debian and manually enter elilo with no luck. I'm given an
> > error about a missing vmlinux file. This path however contains
> > elilo.conf, elilo.efi, README and vmlinuz. Trying to rename vmlinuz
to
> > vmlinux doesn't solve the problem. Moving all these files in
fs1:\EFI
> > changes nothing but moving them to fs1:\ makes the system bootable.
> > Really stange because in my elilo.conf file, all paths are related
to
> > EFI/debian.
>
> do this:
> fs1:
> cd \efi\debian
> elilo -C \efi\debian\elilo.conf
>
> > Any idea what's wrong with elilo and why the boot entry isn't
created?
>
> I'm guessing an old version of efibootmgr that doesn't happen to work
> w/ your config.
>
Le mar 20/01/2004 à 16:53, dann frazier a écrit :
> On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 02:42:14PM +0100, Emeric Maschino wrote:
> > Hi there,
> >
> > I have a question regarding the boot process of Woody on an IA-64
> > platform. Where should the kernel images and elilo.* files go?
>
> any efi partition should do.
>
> > When asking to make the system bootable during the Woody installation
> > process, I choose to install elilo on /dev/sdb1. I can briefly see a
> > efibootmgr error message just before the reboot process starts. At boot
> > up, there's no Debian entry in the EFI menu (might be related to the
> > efibootmgr error I think).
>
> Once you get into the os, try using a newer version of efibootmgr:
> http://free.linux.external.hp.com/~dannf/efibootmgr/
>
> Then try running /usr/sbin/elilo with the --format flag (which will wipe
> sdb1).
>
> > So, using the EFI shell, I navigate through
> > fs1:\EFI\debian and manually enter elilo with no luck. I'm given an
> > error about a missing vmlinux file. This path however contains
> > elilo.conf, elilo.efi, README and vmlinuz. Trying to rename vmlinuz to
> > vmlinux doesn't solve the problem. Moving all these files in fs1:\EFI
> > changes nothing but moving them to fs1:\ makes the system bootable.
> > Really stange because in my elilo.conf file, all paths are related to
> > EFI/debian.
>
> do this:
> fs1:
> cd \efi\debian
> elilo -C \efi\debian\elilo.conf
>
> > Any idea what's wrong with elilo and why the boot entry isn't created?
>
> I'm guessing an old version of efibootmgr that doesn't happen to work
> w/ your config.
>
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