Re: Wheezy on UEFI
On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 3:49 AM, Jerome BENOIT <g6299304p@rezozer.net> wrote:
> On 11/07/12 09:19, Tom H wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 10:47 PM, Jerome BENOIT<g6299304p@rezozer.net>
>> wrote:
>>> On 11/07/12 04:08, Darren Baginski wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Today I have installed Wheezy on UEFI system, Asus UX31A to be more
>>>> particular.
>>>> While installing I faced some issues.
>>>> Looks like installer can't recognize and do not ask whenever system is
>>>> BIOS or UEFI and installs grub-pc,
>>>> while grub-uefi required in such case. Thus making system unbootable.
>>>> One need to 'fix' it from the bootable cd/usb.
>>>> After manually installing grub-uefi-amd64 and running
>>>> `grub-install --bootloader-id=debian`
>>>> you have to run
>>>> `modprobe efivars`
>>>> `efibootmgr -c -l '\efi\debian\grubx64.efi' -L Debian`
>>>> and then remove/edit boot entries with `efibootmgr -B -b NNNNN`
>>>>
>>>> I found those steps not so easy to perform for many users and bielive
>>>> such
>>>> functionality should be intergrated
>>>> in to the Debian installer.
>>>> My question is there a work in progress on that? If so, how can I help ?
>>>
>>> There is actually a discussion about it on the debian-devel list.
>>
>> Please bottom-post.
>>
>> That discussion isn't about UEFI but about UEFI's Secure Boot feature.
>
> ``EFI and Secure Boot'' precisely.
It's also about Debian... :(
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