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Re: Wheezy on UEFI



Am Mittwoch, 11. Juli 2012 schrieb Darren Baginski:
> Hi list!

Hi Darren,

> Today I have installed Wheezy on UEFI system, Asus UX31A to be more par
> ticular. 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 s
> uch 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 
> ?  

I tried that with the ThinkPad T520 here and failed back then.

But then I missed the modprobe efivars and efibootmgr steps. I understand 
the first one, but what do you mean by remove/edit boot entries with 
`efibootmgr -B -b NNNNN`?

I might try again to switch this machine to GPT + UEFI.

Thanks,
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Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de
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