On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 01:17:58PM -0400, Peter Jones wrote:
On 07/26/2012 06:32 AM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
>UEFI boot fails with all of the listed operating systems. Symptoms:
>
>- I get the Fedora/RHEL EFI boot menu, and I let it boot with the default
>options.
>- I get text on the screen about allocating memory pages for Linux-EFI,
>loading VMLINUZ, etc.
>- The screen goes empty/black, there's only a cursor blinking, and nothing
>happens..
>- The boot failed or is stuck with nothing happening. I need to reset the
>box.
>
>It looks like Linux kernel doesn't get started at all.. so it could be a UEFI
>firmware or a bootloader problem.
>
>I'm actually expecting this is an Intel BIOS/UEFI firmware bug, because I've
>seen reports about UEFI boot problems on other Intel 7-series chipset
>as well.
>
>Does anyone know how to debug/troubleshoot UEFI boot problems?
The fact that the cursor is blinking is a bit strange; if grub has attempted
to boot the kernel, that's unexpected. Nevertheless, one thing to try is
to add "noefi" to the kernel command line. If it gets farther, that's an
indication that we're hitting a kernel bug.
"noefi" kernel cmdline option didn't help unfortunately.
When booting Fedora 17 x64 there's the GRUB bootloader with graphical background
image,
I let it boot the default entry "Fedora 17", I see it the allocating memory
pages, loading VMLINUZ etc,
and then the display mode / resolution changes, and then there's just blank screen and
a cursor blinking..
Does that ring any bells?
I forgot to mention earlier that fedora/rhel works OK using legacy BIOS boot,
so only UEFI is problematic on this box.
I'm pretty sure this is a Intel firmware bug, but it'd be nice to be able to
confirm that somehow..
Thanks for the reply!
-- Pasi