On Sat, 03 Aug, at 12:06:23AM, Clea F. Rees wrote: > Matt Fleming asked me to email describing a problem I am experiencing > with the EFI stub loader. Matt has been trying to diagnose the cause > of consistent failures of the stub loader in recent kernels on my > machine. > > Background: All kernels I tried in 3.7.* booted fine using the stub > loader (via rEFInd). No kernels tried from 3.8.* through 3.9.* and now > into 3.10.* boot using the stub loader. None of the workarounds which > others have used work for me. The problem is reproducible using a > direct NVRAM entry rather than rEFInd. All kernels boot fine with > GRUB. > > The problem is reproducible with a kernel compiled from git. A series > of experiments (following Matt's instructions) have determined that > commenting out the call to setup_efi_pc() in eboot.c makes the kernels > boot. > > I would be happy to provide any further information which might be > helpful or to run further tests. Sorry for the delay in replying to this. Does your machine hang during setup_efi_pci() or later on in boot? -- Matt Fleming, Intel Open Source Technology Center -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-efi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
