Re: Failed to boot on ACER Travelmate P253

[Pierre Couderc <pierre@couderc.eu>]

Well, I do not understand what did occur, but installing for the 5th 
time, it boots....
and in UEFI mode.

Anyway, I had to enter the BIOS (F2), declare a password (to get access 
to hidden options of BIOS), and select UEFI and no SecureBoot



Le 25/03/2014 09:21, didier gaumet a écrit :
> Le 25/03/2014 05:43, Pierre Couderc a écrit :
> > I have made a standard installation but it does not boot.
> > I suppose it is a UEFI problem as I have seen (furtibely) that it has
> > installed some grub-uefi package.
> > I am sure that the system is installed but it is a boot problem.
> > I have tried the 2  boot options UEFI or legacy Boot.
> > Thank you in advance for help.
> > PC
> Hello,
>
> If grub-efi is installed, the "legacy boot" EFI option will not help.
> Try to change the boot order by pressing a fonction key at boot (F9 for
> my HP Pavilion dm1), then chose "boot from EFI file" and boot from
> /boot/efi/EFI/debian/grubx64.efi.
>
> Once you are in Debian, copy /boot/efi/EFI/debian/grubx64.efi to
> /boot/efi/EFI/Boot/bootx64.efi. Some Grub versions do not do this properly.
>
> If Microsoft Windows is installed and Grub menu never appears, you also
> might have to rename /boot/efi/EFI/Microsoft to something else (for
> example /boot/efi/EFI/Microsoft_bak) in order to avoid that efi files
> other than Microsoft ones are discarded.
>
> tinkering with efibootmgr has been useless in my case.