Bug#708430: Wheezy: Questions about UEFI boot etc.

[Svante Signell]

On Thu, 2013-05-16 at 00:10 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote:
> On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 09:57:40PM +0200, Svante Signell wrote:
> >On Wed, 2013-05-15 at 17:46 +0200, Svante Signell wrote:
> >> On Wed, 2013-05-15 at 10:05 -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> >[...]
> >Happiness :-) Booting using grub now works. The issue was to:
> >mount /dev/sda? containing /boot/efi in the installer rescue mode.
> >cp -p /boot/efi/EFI/debian/grubx64.efi to /boot/efi/EFI/Boot/bootx64.efi
> >and rebooting (and backing up the old version). I think this might be
> >added to the installer documentation. Thanks for your help.
> 
> OK, so it sounds like you maybe have a broken firmware that's not
> looking at EFI boot options properly. You've fixed your problem by
> installing to the (fallback) removable media path as well. This looks
> to be identical to what we're seeing in #708430. Could you please tell
> us more details about your machine? make/model/firmware version would
> be very handy here...

The computer is an Acer Predator G3620. BIOS is AMI P11-A3, build date
2012-10-18. BIOS Setup Utility is Acer Inc. v2.15.1227.

>From the registration site http://www.uefi.org/specs/esp_registry Acer
is not in that list. Neither is Toshiba, as reported in bug #708430. 

Additionally, Debian is not in that list either, shouldn't they be if
installing EFI code in /boot/efi/EFI/debian?

FYI: There is no copy of bootx64.efi in /boot/efi/EFI/Microsoft/, it was
only present in /boot/efi/EFI/Boot/, now replaced my me with
grubx64.efi. *.efi files at .../EFI/Microsoft/Boot are: bootmgr.efi,
bootgmfw.efi and mentest.efi (together with several other
files/directories)