Re: UEFI works with USB but not with HDD
On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 4:29 PM, Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com> wrote:
> Dan wrote:
>
>>I just bought a desktop (Dell T5810). I tried to install Jessie with
>>UEFI. The USB installation (netinst) works perfectly. I installed the
>>whole system and I can see it in the UEFI/BIOS menu. Surprisingly when
>>I try to boot the system I get "No bootable devices found"
>>
>>I tried all the options of the BIOS but it does not work. I already
>>installed Debian with UEFI in another system and it worked fine. Would
>>that mean that I have a buggy BIOS? What surprises me the most is that
>>the USB/UEFI works but not the HDD/UEFI.
>
> Unfortunately, it's not that uncommon. Lots of UEFI implementations
> are really bad so far - testing seems to be essentially "does it work
> with Windows?" and nothing more.
>
> As already suggested, try running "efibootmgr -v" on the system and
> see what it says. If needs be, use the installer in Rescue mode to get
> there. With Jessie, I also added an option in Rescue mode to add a
> "removable media" boot entry on your hard disk so that even really
> brain-dead UEFI setups should still boot...
>
Hi Steve,
As you suggested I use the option "Force Grub installation to the EFI
removable media path" and it works :)
Is there any disadvantage using this option? What is the difference
between this option and the regular UEFI boot?
Thanks,
Dan
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