Bug#701127: grub-efi: Not booting except when a CD is inserted or when entered BIOS previously

[Marcel Jira]

Package: grub-efi
Version: 1.99-26
Severity: important
Tags: d-i

I installed Debian Wheezy amd64 using the beta4 installer but also installed
all updates since.

When I boot my computer, after grub the screen stays black. To reboot the
computer I have to use the power or reset switch (a short button-press is
enough in this case). This also happens when I try to boot to recovery mode.

I re-installed debian just a few days ago. The previous installation was also
performed with the Wheezy amd64 beta4 installer. I had the same issues,
however, after a while they disappeared. I thought the solution was caused by
installing some updates and/or the package "firmware-realtek" (see here:
http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/64370/system-boots-only-with-cd-
inserted) but in the meantime I am convinced that it was simply magic ;-)

What may be interesting:
The described boot-problem does *not* happen when
(1) a data CD is inserted in the drive while the computer is booting (while the
ASUS logo is displayed)
or
(2) I go to BIOS before I try to boot

Here is some more information on my system:

Mainboard: ASUS P8H77-I

Processor: Intel Core i5-3470T

Hard drives:
  1x Samsung SSD 840 Pro Series 256GB
  Partitions:
    Disk /dev/sda: 500118192 sectors, 238.5 GiB
    Logical sector size: 512 bytes
    Disk identifier (GUID): <removed (I don't know if anyone could do something
evil with that!?)>
    Partition table holds up to 128 entries
    First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 500118158
    Partitions will be aligned on 2048-sector boundaries
    Total free space is 226605677 sectors (108.1 GiB)

    Number  Start (sector)    End (sector)  Size       Code  Name
       1            2048           77823   37.0 MiB    EF00
       2           77824        78202879   37.3 GiB    0700  ROOT_PART
       3        78202880       273514495   93.1 GiB    0700  HOME_PART
  2x Western Digital AV-GP 2000GB, 64MB Cache, SATA II (WD20EURS)
  Partitions:
    Disk /dev/sdb: 3907029168 sectors, 1.8 TiB
    Logical sector size: 512 bytes
    Disk identifier (GUID): <removed (I don't know if anyone could do something
evil with that!?)>
    Partition table holds up to 128 entries
    First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 3907029134
    Partitions will be aligned on 2048-sector boundaries
    Total free space is 2014 sectors (1007.0 KiB)

    Number  Start (sector)    End (sector)  Size       Code  Name
       1            2048         2099199   1024.0 MiB  FD00  Linux RAID
       2         2099200      3907029134   1.8 TiB     FD00  Linux RAID

CD-Drive: ASUS DRW-24B5ST
RAM: G.Skill Sniper DIMM Kit 8GB PC3U-12800U CL9-9-9-24 (DDR3U-1600)

Hope that helps to squash this bug.

If any additional information is needed - please ask.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_AT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_AT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages grub-efi depends on:
ii  grub-common     1.99-26
ii  grub-efi-amd64  1.99-26

grub-efi recommends no packages.

grub-efi suggests no packages.

-- debconf information:
* grub2/linux_cmdline:
* grub2/linux_cmdline_default: quiet