| Summary: | GRUB does not boot on Dell UEFI OR boots without fbcon | ||||||||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Richard Chan <rc556677> | ||||||
| Component: | grub | Assignee: | Peter Jones <pjones> | ||||||
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> | ||||||
| Severity: | unspecified | Docs Contact: | |||||||
| Priority: | unspecified | ||||||||
| Version: | 17 | CC: | donnie, jonathan, lkundrak, madhu.chinakonda, mgregg, pjones, the.ridikulus.rat | ||||||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||||||||
| Target Release: | --- | ||||||||
| Hardware: | x86_64 | ||||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||||
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |||||||
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||||||||
| Last Closed: | 2013-08-01 08:51:13 UTC | Type: | Bug | ||||||
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||||
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |||||||
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |||||||
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |||||||
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |||||||
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Created attachment 578833 [details]
Booting with elilo or grub2 is successful with fbcon
grub> version GNU GRUB version 0.97-91-91.fc17 (0K lower / 1987280K upper memory) grub> root (hd0,1) grub> serial --unit=0 --speed=115200 grub> kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.32-220.7.1.el6.x86_64 root=/dev/sda3 ro console=ttyS0,115200 console=tty0 Trying to allocate 959 pages for VMLINUZ Got pages at 0x7767c000 [Linux-EFI, setup=0x1034, size=0x3becb0] grub> initrd /initramfs-2.6.32-220.7.1.el6.x86_64.img [Initrd, addr=0x76aa4000, size=0xed77e5] grub> boot cannot exit boot services fbcon-less version of grub: rpm -qi grub Name : grub Relocations: (not relocatable) Version : 0.97 Vendor: CentOS Release : 75.el6 Build Date: Thu 08 Dec 2011 06:26:02 AM SGT grub> displaymem EISA Memory BIOS Interface is present Address Map BIOS Interface is present Lower memory: 0K, Upper memory (to first chipset hole): 1987280K [Address Range Descriptor entries immediately follow (values are 64-bit)] Usable RAM: Base Address: 0x10000 Length: 0x90000 bytes Usable RAM: Base Address: 0x100000 Length: 0x794b4000 bytes Reserved: Base Address: 0x795b4000 Length: 0x62000 bytes Usable RAM: Base Address: 0x79616000 Length: 0x1503000 bytes Reserved: Base Address: 0x7ab19000 Length: 0x200000 bytes Usable RAM: Base Address: 0x7ad19000 Length: 0xff000 bytes Reserved: Base Address: 0x7ae18000 Length: 0x5000 bytes Reserved: Base Address: 0x7ae1d000 Length: 0x80000 bytes Usable RAM: Base Address: 0x7ae9d000 Length: 0x4044000 bytes Usable RAM: Base Address: 0x7ef11000 Length: 0x27000 bytes Reserved: Base Address: 0x7f338000 Length: 0x16000 bytes Reserved: Base Address: 0x7f34e000 Length: 0x7f000 bytes Reserved: Base Address: 0x7f3cd000 Length: 0x10c33000 bytes Reserved: Base Address: 0xfe000000 Length: 0x2000000 bytes Usable RAM: Base Address: 0x100000000 Length: 0x780000000 bytes grub> root (hd0,1) grub> kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.32-220.7.1.el6.x86_64 ro root=/dev/sda3 Trying to allocate 959 pages for VMLINUZ [Linux-EFI, setup=0x1034, size=0x3becb0] grub> initrd /initramfs-2.6.32-220.7.1.el6.x86_64.img [Initrd, addr=0x767f9000, size=0xed77e5] grub> boot Result: success with no framebuffer ...forgot displaymem for 0.97-91.fc17 GNU GRUB version 0.97-91.fc17 (0K lower / 1987280K upper memory) [ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For the first word, TAB lists possible command completions. Anywhere else TAB lists the possible completions of a device/filename. ESC at any time exits.] grub> displaymem EISA Memory BIOS Interface is present Address Map BIOS Interface is present Lower memory: 0K, Upper memory (to first chipset hole): 1987280K [Address Range Descriptor entries immediately follow (values are 64-bit)] Usable RAM: Base Address: 0x10000 Length: 0x90000 bytes Usable RAM: Base Address: 0x100000 Length: 0x794b4000 bytes Reserved: Base Address: 0x795b4000 Length: 0x62000 bytes Usable RAM: Base Address: 0x79616000 Length: 0x1503000 bytes Reserved: Base Address: 0x7ab19000 Length: 0x200000 bytes Usable RAM: Base Address: 0x7ad19000 Length: 0xff000 bytes Reserved: Base Address: 0x7ae18000 Length: 0x5000 bytes Reserved: Base Address: 0x7ae1d000 Length: 0x80000 bytes Usable RAM: Base Address: 0x7ae9d000 Length: 0x4044000 bytes Usable RAM: Base Address: 0x7ef11000 Length: 0x27000 bytes Reserved: Base Address: 0x7f338000 Length: 0x16000 bytes Reserved: Base Address: 0x7f34e000 Length: 0x7f000 bytes Reserved: Base Address: 0x7f3cd000 Length: 0x10c33000 bytes Reserved: Base Address: 0xfe000000 Length: 0x2000000 bytes Usable RAM: Base Address: 0x100000000 Length: 0x780000000 bytes Please attach your grub.conf . 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Created attachment 578832 [details] From grub-0.97-71, successful boot with no fbcon Description of problem: grub-efi does not boot on Dell M910 blade UEFI. It falls back to the Dell UEFI Shell grub-efi-0.97-71 (from CentOS / RHEL 6) successfully boots without initializing the EFI framebubber. No fbcon device is detected Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): grub-0.97-91 - cannot boot; reverts to Dell Boot Manager grub-0.91-7x - boots but does not find fbcon How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. Dell M910 switch BIOS to UEFI 2. Install grub-efi 3. Boot system Actual results: grub-efi-0.97-71 boots without framebuffer grub-efi-0.97-91 (Fedora 17) cannot boot machine Expected results: Successful boot with framebuffer Additional info: