[Novalug] Failed attempt to do a uEFI install

Peter Larsen peter@peterlarsen.org
Thu Jun 16 21:42:27 EDT 2016


On 06/12/2016 10:27 PM, Stuart Gathman via Novalug wrote:
> 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.

Can you define "do not work"? Error messages, install process, BIOS
(uEFI configuration) etc?

> # 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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Regards
  Peter Larsen




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