Bug#708430: Wheezy: Questions about UEFI boot etc.

[Steve McIntyre]

On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 09:57:40PM +0200, Svante Signell wrote:
>On Wed, 2013-05-15 at 17:46 +0200, Svante Signell wrote:
>> On Wed, 2013-05-15 at 10:05 -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
>[...]
>> Thanks both of you for your help. I have now reinstalled wheezy. All
>> seems to go well again, even for grub-efi to install. Since I did not
>> get a question I assume the install was to /dev/sda2, where the EFI
>> partition is. However, independent of BIOS settings and install options
>> W8 comes up every time, no grub or boot menu visible. Maybe easyBCD is
>> next step?
>
>Happiness :-) Booting using grub now works. The issue was to:
>mount /dev/sda? containing /boot/efi in the installer rescue mode.
>cp -p /boot/efi/EFI/debian/grubx64.efi to /boot/efi/EFI/Boot/bootx64.efi
>and rebooting (and backing up the old version). I think this might be
>added to the installer documentation. Thanks for your help.

OK, so it sounds like you maybe have a broken firmware that's not
looking at EFI boot options properly. You've fixed your problem by
installing to the (fallback) removable media path as well. This looks
to be identical to what we're seeing in #708430. Could you please tell
us more details about your machine? make/model/firmware version would
be very handy here...

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Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.                                steve at einval.com
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