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#1 2012-07-21 20:40:53

ernetas
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Registered: 2011-03-13
Posts: 79

UEFI boot: problem with GPT partitioning after Fedora 17 installation

I'm using GPT partitioning and recently it came to it that the system had updated several packages, including GRUB, Linux kernel. I also installed Fedora 17, which is now gone. It has created an additional 2 MB partition with a bios_grub flag. I deleted it since it was creating a conflict in the partition table with incorrectly set sectors and etc.
Since the installation of Fedora 17, ArchLinux stopped booting via UEFI - "no OS found" type of BIOS error. I tried to create new EFI records with efibootmgr, but those don't work just as well. Lastly, I tried to boot UEFI shell from a USB drive and everything was working, but it could not open any filesystems on disk, only on the USB.
Before that, I was booting it as EFIstub, meaning no GRUB or etc. involved, straight to the vmlinuz-linux.efi...
It doesn't seem to be a kernel problem, since I can successfully boot the system via GRUB command line booted with UEFI from a USB. The problem however seems to be in partitioning or something like that.

What could be the problem and how do I solve it?

gdisk output:

ernestas ~ $ sudo gdisk -l /dev/sda
GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 0.8.5

Partition table scan:
  MBR: protective
  BSD: not present
  APM: not present
  GPT: present

Found valid GPT with protective MBR; using GPT.
Disk /dev/sda: 1250263728 sectors, 596.2 GiB
Logical sector size: 512 bytes
Disk identifier (GUID): 61C6803E-72D9-4733-A013-90F50584B576
Partition table holds up to 128 entries
First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 1250263694
Partitions will be aligned on 2048-sector boundaries
Total free space is 131693 sectors (64.3 MiB)

Number  Start (sector)    End (sector)  Size       Code  Name
   1          206848          309247   50.0 MiB    8300  Linux filesystem
   3      1229780992      1250181119   9.7 GiB     0700  Linux filesystem
   4            2048          206847   100.0 MiB   EF00  Microsoft basic data
   5        38066176      1229766655   568.2 GiB   8300  Linux filesystem
   6        17672192        38057983   9.7 GiB     8300  Linux filesystem
   7          323584        17661951   8.3 GiB     8200  
ernestas ~ $ 

(since I am not installing ArchLinux, I thought this forum would be the best choice)

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#2 2012-10-30 11:08:45

ernetas
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Registered: 2011-03-13
Posts: 79

Re: UEFI boot: problem with GPT partitioning after Fedora 17 installation

Solved the problem by reinstalling the whole OS.

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