Am Mittwoch, 11. Juli 2012 schrieb Darren Baginski: > Hi list! Hi Darren,
> Today I have installed Wheezy on UEFI system, Asus UX31A to be more par > ticular. While installing I faced some issues. > Looks like installer can't recognize and do not ask whenever system is > BIOS or UEFI and installs grub-pc, > while grub-uefi required in such case. Thus making system unbootable. > One need to 'fix' it from the bootable cd/usb. > After manually installing grub-uefi-amd64 and running > `grub-install --bootloader-id=debian` > you have to run > `modprobe efivars` > `efibootmgr -c -l '\efi\debian\grubx64.efi' -L Debian` > and then remove/edit boot entries with `efibootmgr -B -b NNNNN` > > I found those steps not so easy to perform for many users and bielive s > uch functionality should be intergrated in to the Debian installer. > My question is there a work in progress on that? If so, how can I help > ? I tried that with the ThinkPad T520 here and failed back then. But then I missed the modprobe efivars and efibootmgr steps. I understand the first one, but what do you mean by remove/edit boot entries with `efibootmgr -B -b NNNNN`? I might try again to switch this machine to GPT + UEFI. Thanks, -- Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de GPG: 03B0 0D6C 0040 0710 4AFA B82F 991B EAAC A599 84C7 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201207112236.26235.mar...@lichtvoll.de