On Tuesday, 17 April 2018 15:28:56 CEST Bob Apodaca wrote:
> I have a Supermicro X11SAE motherboard with an M.2 SATA drive that requires
> UEFI to boot. I've created a bootable USB drive, I've changed the BIOS
> settings to use UEFI and I can boot and appear to install the system.
> However, the system will not boot after the install is completed and the
> system does not recognize the drive.
I have some cheap laboratory hosts from Lenovo with M.2 NVME drive.
I was able to install debian stretch in legacy mode and boot it. But it only
worked if I a manually chose the disk during boot.
Last year I got a config running for installing a dual boot system (windows 10
+ debian stretch).
The work was based on some work I did years before. Therefore I do not know if
my documentation is complete.
I do not have a disk_config laying around. I am using a hook to get it right
because i am using ntfsclone to copy the windows 10 including the efi partition
with everything necessary for windows 10.
> I think the first issue is FAI is setting the GRUB_PC class instead of the
> GRUB_EFI class and I'm not sure why.
I did not find a solution to automatically detect if uefi boot is supported and
also booted via uefi mode.
My workaround is to have a grub menu for pxe boot via uefi with 2 entries for
legazy and uefi mode.
on the client:
disable secure boot
on the fai server:
$ apt-get install grub-efi-amd64-bin
$ grub-mknetdir --net-directory /srv/tftp/fai/ --subdir efi
$ cp /usr/share/grub/unicode.pf2 /srv/tftp/fai/efi
$ cat /srv/tftp/fai/efi/grub.cfg
set menu_color_normal=white/black
set menu_color_highlight=black/light-gray
set timeout=5
# for debug:
#set pager=1
#set debug=all
insmod efi_gop
insmod efi_uga
if loadfont ${prefix}/fai/unicode.pf2
then
insmod gfxterm
set gfxmode=auto
set gfxpayload=keep
terminal_output gfxterm
fi
menuentry "Install Debian stretch on UEFI BIOS" {
linux (tftp)vmlinuz-4.9.0-6-amd64 ip=dhcp
root=nfs:129.27.140.248:/srv/fai/nfsroot rootovl
FAI_FLAGS=verbose,sshd,createvt,reboot,salt
FAI_CONFIG_SRC=git+https://gitint.spsc.tugraz.at/sysadmin/fai-config.git#stretch
FAI_ACTION=install FAI_USE_UEFI_BIOS
initrd (tftp)initrd.img-4.9.0-6-amd64
}
menuentry "Install Debian stretch on legacy BIOS" {
linux (tftp)vmlinuz-4.9.0-6-amd64 ip=dhcp
root=nfs:129.27.140.248:/srv/fai/nfsroot rootovl
FAI_FLAGS=verbose,sshd,createvt,reboot,salt
FAI_CONFIG_SRC=git+https://gitint.spsc.tugraz.at/sysadmin/fai-config.git#stretch
FAI_ACTION=install
initrd (tftp)initrd.img-4.9.0-6-amd64
}
you need to configure the DHCP server:
https://lists.uni-koeln.de/pipermail/linux-fai/2014-February/010294.html
and the fai pxe template:
$ cat /srv/tftp/fai/pxelinux.cfg/uefi
default fai-generated
label fai-generated
kernel vmlinuz-4.9.0-6-amd64
append initrd.img-4.9.0-6-amd64 ip=dhcp
root=nfs:129.27.140.248:/srv/fai/nfsroot rootovl
FAI_FLAGS=verbose,sshd,createvt,reboot,salt
FAI_CONFIG_SRC=git+https://gitint.spsc.tugraz.at/sysadmin/fai-config.git#stretch
FAI_ACTION=install FAI_USE_UEFI_BIOS
in the fai-config space i have
11-base-classes:
# UEFI BIOS supported
if [ $(dmidecode | grep "UEFI is supported" >/dev/null; echo $?) -eq 0 ]; then
# UEFI BIOS not in legacy mode
# (manually using kernel option FAI_USE_UEFI_BIOS)
if [ $(cat /proc/cmdline | grep "FAI_USE_UEFI_BIOS" > /dev/null; echo $?)
-eq 0 ]; then
echo GRUB_UEFI
# use legacy mode
else
echo GRUB_PC
fi
# no UEFI support
else
echo GRUB_PC
fi
package_config/DEBIAN:
PACKAGES install GRUB_PC
grub-pc grub-legacy- lilo-
PACKAGES aptitude GRUB_UEFI
grub-efi grub-pc- grub-legacy- lilo-
os-prober
scripts/GRUB_UEFI/10-setup:
#!/bin/bash
error=0 ; trap "error=$((error|1))" ERR
set -a
[[ $FAI_ACTION != "softupdate" ]] || exit 0
if [ -z "$BOOT_DEVICE" ]; then
exit 189
fi
modprobe efivars
# force target arch in case we did not boot using uefi pxe boot
if ifclass AMD64; then
GRUB_TARGET_ARCH="--target=x86_64-efi"
fi
$ROOTCMD grub-install $GRUB_TARGET_ARCH $BOOT_DEVICE
$ROOTCMD update-grub
# update boot order
# get number for debian
EFI_DEBIAN_NUMBER=`$ROOTCMD efibootmgr | awk 'match($0,/Boot(.*)\* debian/,var)
{print var[1]}'`
# get order into array
EFI_BOOT_ORDER=(`$ROOTCMD efibootmgr | awk 'match($0,/BootOrder: (.*)/,var)
{print var[1]}' | tr -t ',' ' '`)
$ROOTCMD efibootmgr -o ${EFI_DEBIAN_NUMBER},`echo
${EFI_BOOT_ORDER[@]/$EFI_DEBIAN_NUMBER} | tr -t ' ' ','`
exit $error
I hope this will help and I did not oversee anything. I am using fai 5.6 but it
also worked with older versions.
regards
Markus Köberl
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Markus Koeberl
Graz University of Technology
Signal Processing and Speech Communication Laboratory
E-mail: markus.koeb...@tugraz.at
