[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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Peter Larsen
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