Bug 50717
| Summary: | System hangs when selecting RedHat Linux from the EFI Boot Menu | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Public Beta | Reporter: | Kevin Stansell <kstanse> |
| Component: | anaconda | Assignee: | Bill Nottingham <notting> |
| Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | Brock Organ <borgan> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | roswell | CC: | matt_domsch, rvokal |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | ia64 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2001-08-08 18:27:11 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
Kevin Stansell
2001-08-02 15:26:02 UTC
Please send the EFI revision you're working on. We don't have final hardware from IBM, so we can't verify this. It works on all the other vendor's hardware that we have. You should also be able to enter the boot entry editor to verify that the installer set up the entry correctly. EFI Shell version 1.02 [12.33] Can you show the boot entry that's created (i.e., the output of 'efibootmgr -v'), /etc/fstab, and /boot/efi/elilo.conf? efibootmgr -v BootCurrent: 0004 BootOrder: 0000,0002,0005,0004 Boot0000* Red Hat Linux HD(1.3f.32f8e,00000000)File(\elilo.efi) Boot0002* Acpi(PNP0A03,0)/Pci(5I0)/Mac(00D0B7AAFE90) ACPI(a0341d0) PCI (0.5)MAC(00d0b7aafe90,0) Boot0004* EFI Vendor(d65a6b8c-71e5-4df0-a909-f0d2992b5aa9,) Boot0005* No Description Vendor(cf31fac5-c24e-11d2-85f3-00a0c93ec93b,81000000) /etc/fstab LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1 /dev/sda1 /boot/efi vfat defaults 0 0 none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 LABEL=/home /home ext3 defaults 1 2 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 LABEL=/usr /usr ext3 defaults 1 2 LABEL=/var /var ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/sda3 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0 /dev/hda /mnt/ls120.0 auto noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0 /boot/efi/elilo.conf prompt timeout=50 default-linux image=vmlinuz-2.4.6-3.1smp label=linux initrd=initrd-2.4.6-3.1smp.img read-only root=/dev/sda6 image=vmlinuz-2.4.6-3.1 label=linux-up initrd=initrd-2.4.6-3.1.img read-only root=/dev/sda6 NOTE: I deleted the 'RedHat Linux' boot option that was placed in the EFI Menu by the installer, and then added a boot option that pointed to the Fat-16 partition and the elilo.efi file. When the new boot option was selected from the menu the system booted normally and did not hang. What does efibootmgr -v say *after* adding the working entry? I reinstalled the system with EFI as the first Boot Option (had no effect on results, here are the results of 'efibootmgr' when the system hangs and when the system boot properly: Before adding working entry: efibootmgr -v BootCurrent: 0004 BootOrder: 0000,0004,0002,0005 Boot0000* Red Hat Linux HD(1,3f,32f8e,00000000)File(\elilo.efi) Boot0002* Acpi(PNP0A03,0)/Pci(5I0)/Mac(00D0B7AAFE90) ACPI(a0341d0) PCI (0.5)MAC(00d0b7aafe90,0) Boot0004* EFI Vendor(d65a6b8c-71e5-4df0-a909-f0d2992b5aa9,) Boot0005* No Description Vendor(cf31fac5-c24e-11d2-85f3-00a0c93ec93b,81000000) After adding working entry: efibootmgr -v BootCurrent: 0000 BootOrder: 0004,0002,0005,0000 Boot0000* redhat ACPI(a0341d0,1)PCI(0.2)SCSI(0,0)HD(1,3f,32f8e,00000000)File (\elilo.efi) Boot0002* Acpi(PNP0A03,0)/Pci(5I0)/Mac(00D0B7AAFE90) ACPI(a0341d0) PCI (0.5)MAC(00d0b7aafe90,0) Boot0004* EFI Vendor(d65a6b8c-71e5-4df0-a909-f0d2992b5aa9,) Boot0005* No Description Vendor(cf31fac5-c24e-11d2-85f3-00a0c93ec93b,81000000) I had the same problem on my intel whitebox quad lion C0 stepping with the 7.2beta3 "roswell". BIOS 76 and EFI v1.02. I had to remove the Redhat Linux boot option from the EFI menu and just type elilo at the prompt. I had the same problem on my intel whitebox quad lion C0 stepping with the 7.2beta3 "roswell". BIOS 76 and EFI v1.02. I had to remove the Redhat Linux boot option from the EFI menu and just type elilo at the prompt. Matt, are we relying on some feature that's not always enabled in the firmware? (EDD, for example?) They've got more than one disk in the system, with more than one EFI System Partition, and it's using MBR-style partition tables without signatures. The newer efibootmgr 0.3.3 (plus one patch from Richard Hirst) will write signatures to such disks so it'll work better. If you use the new efibootmgr to write a signature to the disk, or use GPT to partition the disk, you won't have this problem. The "No Description" entry shows you're trying to boot off of a second disk too, which should be fine. Should be fixed in the next build (efibootmgr-0.3.3 is included, and we use '-w' in the installer. Did you also add the patch from Richard Hirst that came across. He caught my inability to add... If you need, I'll just cut a 0.3.4. |