From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp2.ugent.be ([157.193.49.126]) by pp; Fri Dec 5 11:58:56 EST 2014 Received: from localhost (mcheck2.ugent.be [157.193.49.249]) by smtp2.ugent.be (Postfix) with ESMTP id C304F12C282 for <9front@9front.org>; Fri, 5 Dec 2014 17:58:49 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: by UGent DICT Received: from smtp2.ugent.be ([IPv6:::ffff:157.193.49.126]) by localhost (mcheck2.UGent.be [::ffff:157.193.43.11]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id bhlMoIxpYhdb for <9front@9front.org>; Fri, 5 Dec 2014 17:58:49 +0100 (CET) Received: from smtp.dmbr.UGent.be (cp0242.irc.ugent.be [157.193.189.5]) by smtp2.ugent.be (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EBCD12C255 for <9front@9front.org>; Fri, 5 Dec 2014 17:58:49 +0100 (CET) Received: from krypton.localnet (unknown [192.168.100.39]) by smtp.dmbr.UGent.be (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 3283810B6 for <9front@9front.org>; Fri, 5 Dec 2014 17:58:25 +0100 (CET) From: Jens Staal To: 9front <9front@9front.org> Subject: Booting EFI (or work-arounds to install 9front on GPT partition)? Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2014 17:58:49 +0100 Message-ID: <5454299.WklWF47Z7a@krypton> List-ID: <9front.9front.org> X-Glyph: ➈ X-Bullshit: asynchronous structured SQL over ORM extension cloud Organization: at home User-Agent: KMail/4.14.3 (Linux/3.17.4-1-ck; KDE/4.14.3; x86_64; ; ) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" X-Miltered: at jchkm3 with ID 5481E449.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://helpdesk.ugent.be/email/)! X-j-chkmail-Enveloppe: 5481E449.000 from cp0242.irc.ugent.be/cp0242.irc.ugent.be/157.193.189.5/smtp.dmbr.UGent.be/ X-j-chkmail-Score: MSGID : 5481E449.000 on smtp2.ugent.be : j-chkmail score : . : R=. U=. O=. B=0.000 -> S=0.000 X-j-chkmail-Status: Ham Hi I have been trying to boot an installation medium with EFI and failed (first USB, now also burned CD). I need to go back and make notes for which combinations that gave which errors ... Booting with EFI for both USB and CD stopped at a place where it says "boot". One of the alternatives stopped just before then in some sort of shell (I could not exit to rc using !rc) and I had to give the variable "bootfile" before giving the command "boot". Since I could not navigate or "ls" anywhere I could not figure out the location of the bootfile. The other alternative got further and froze at "boot". One error that I see after the "dump" of various numbers is an error with IRQ 7 if that helps... With the burned CD and BIOS boot, I get to the installer but it can not see my GPT partitions so I guess 9front needs to be booted with EFI to make use of GPT partitions?