[Novalug] Failed attempt to do a uEFI install

Stuart Gathman stuart@gathman.org
Sun Jun 12 22:27:06 EDT 2016


I have an h8-1234 that claims to support uEFI, and a scratch 250G disk. 
So I am attempting to do a uEFI install of Fedora 24 based on what we
learned Saturday.  It does not boot.  It is possible that the h8 lies.

# gdisk -l /dev/sda
GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 1.0.1

Partition table scan:
  MBR: protective
  BSD: not present
  APM: not present
  GPT: present

Found valid GPT with protective MBR; using GPT.
Disk /dev/sda: 488281250 sectors, 232.8 GiB
Logical sector size: 512 bytes
Disk identifier (GUID): 54732064-F2A5-4806-9A4C-2E85184660BA
Partition table holds up to 128 entries
First usable sector is 2048, last usable sector is 488281216
Partitions will be aligned on 2048-sector boundaries
Total free space is 458179713 sectors (218.5 GiB)

Number  Start (sector)    End (sector)  Size       Code  Name
   1            2048          104447   50.0 MiB    EF00 
   2          104448          718847   300.0 MiB   8300 
   3          718848          720895   1024.0 KiB  EF02 
   4          720896        30101503   14.0 GiB    8E00 
[root@localhost ~]# gdisk -l /dev/sda | fpaste
Uploading (1.0KiB)...
http://paste.fedoraproject.org/378283/65777797/ ->
http://paste.fedoraproject.org/378283/65777797
[root@localhost ~]# fdisk -l /dev/sda
Disk /dev/sda: 232.9 GiB, 250000000000 bytes, 488281250 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: 54732064-F2A5-4806-9A4C-2E85184660BA

Device      Start      End  Sectors  Size Type
/dev/sda1    2048   104447   102400   50M EFI System
/dev/sda2  104448   718847   614400  300M Linux filesystem
/dev/sda3  718848   720895     2048    1M BIOS boot
/dev/sda4  720896 30101503 29380608   14G Linux LVM
[root@localhost ~]# parted /dev/sda
GNU Parted 3.2
Using /dev/sda
Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands.
(parted) p                                                               
Model: ATA WDC WD2500YS-18S (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 250GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags: pmbr_boot

Number  Start   End     Size    File system  Name  Flags
 1      1049kB  53.5MB  52.4MB  fat16              boot, esp
 2      53.5MB  368MB   315MB   ext3
 3      368MB   369MB   1049kB                     bios_grub
 4      369MB   15.4GB  15.0GB                     lvm






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