Folks, I'm building a new NAS box which has five HDDs in a RAID 5 configuration, using Linux software RAID. Historically this has caused some challenges when dealing with /boot. Some time back I set upon the idea of using an IDE > CF adapter and putting a small CF card in there for /boot, with the logic that one could dd an image of the drive and store it in a safe place, should the CF card die. As time progressed I moved on to SATA > CF adapters. For my latest incarnation, I find myself with a UEFI machine. I've follwoed my usual practice. Debian seemed to install just fine and I rebooted at the end of the installation but the Debian was not listed as a boot option in the EFI NVRAM. Further, booting to the EFI Shell, I can access the EFI parition, cd to EFI/debian and manaully call shimx64.efi, giving the following output: Reloc 0 block size 0 is invalid Relocation failed: Unsupported Failed to load imagE: Unsupported start_image() returned Unsupported I have tried changing the CF card twice, as well as changing the CF adapter but no dice. I tried swapping out the adaper with a spare SSD I had to hand and everything worked just fine this time. I do have a near identitcal motherboard in another server, where I have successfully used the SATA > CF trick, so I'm a bit perplexed as to what may be going on here. Please could anyone suggest any words of wisdom? Thanks, Mike.
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