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#1 2014-11-09 17:09:57

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gummiboot menu does not appear

Recently I have switched from BIOS-GPT to UEFI-GPT my existing arch linux installation.

I was using GRUB 2 before and now I am using gummiboot boot manager in order for booting up in UEFI mode.

I have installed gummiboot successfully, and created the correct entry in /boot/loader/entries and configured correctly /boot/loader/loader.conf pointing to the correct entry (default) in /boot/loader/entries.

When I restart my machine a black screen appears an gummiboot menu does not appear (timeout is configured in loader.conf) even if I press space bar during the boot.

Also, after installing gummiboot in the new EFI partition recently created, the files vmlinuz-linux, initramfs-linux-fallback.img and initramfs-linux.img do not exist in /boot (ESP partition). Why?
Do I have to copy manually from the old /boot partiton? Why gummiboot installer does not copy or created them automatically?

Could some help me?

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#2 2014-11-09 17:20:01

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Re: gummiboot menu does not appear

Without seeing your partition layout and your gummiboot configs, we can only take you at your word that they are configured correctly...


Not an Installation issue, moving to NC.

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#3 2014-11-09 17:48:16

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Re: gummiboot menu does not appear

jasonwryan wrote:

Without seeing your partition layout and your gummiboot configs, we can only take you at your word that they are configured correctly...


Not an Installation issue, moving to NC.


HDD Layout:

/dev/sdx1 -----> BIOS boot
/dev/sdx2 -----> Microsoft basic data <--- old /boot GRUB2
/dev/sdx3 -----> Linux LVM
/dev/sdx4 -----> EFI system <--- Current /boot

And my /dev/sdx3 which is a Linux LVM partition contains below logical volumes:

  ---> VolGroup00-lvolswap
  ---> VolGroup00-lvolhome
  ---> VolGroup00-lvolroot <----- This is my root
  ---> VolGroup00-lvolvar

gummiboot config

/boot/loader/loader.conf has the following content:

timeout 3
default 64f986c181c745629a2a95072bba9422-*

/boot/loader/entries/64f986c181c745629a2a95072bba9422-archlinux.conf 

title        Arch Linux
linux      /vmlinuz-linux
initrd      /initramfs-linux.img
options  root=/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-lvolroot rw

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#4 2014-11-09 17:53:42

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Re: gummiboot menu does not appear

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Gu … figuration

Note what the default value is supposed to point to... You may want to rename that file to something a lot more readable, like arch.conf.

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#5 2014-11-09 18:05:51

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Re: gummiboot menu does not appear

jasonwryan wrote:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Gu … figuration

Note what the default value is supposed to point to... You may want to rename that file to something a lot more readable, like arch.conf.

:
First of all, many thanks for all your support. I agree, I have changed the names. So my new gummiboot configuration files are below:


gummiboot config

/boot/loader/loader.conf has the following content:

timeout 3
default arch

/boot/loader/entries/arch.conf 

title        Arch Linux
linux      /vmlinuz-linux
initrd      /initramfs-linux.img
options  root=/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-lvolroot rw

Now the name is more readable but it continues with the same behaviour: no working, after restart machine... black screen without showing gummiboot menu.

Any ideas?

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#6 2014-11-09 18:31:30

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Re: gummiboot menu does not appear

Please don't crosspost:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 0#p1473790

Are you infected with Wetiko?

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#7 2014-11-09 18:59:16

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Re: gummiboot menu does not appear

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:

Ok, as said in the crosspost linked above I will continue in this thread.

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#8 2014-11-09 19:09:42

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Re: gummiboot menu does not appear

and this is my gummiboot tree structure in /boot:

/boot/
|--EFI
|   |----Boot
|   |      |--BOOTx64.EFI
|   |   
|   |-----gummiboot
|          |--gummibootx64.efi
|
|----initramfs-linux-fallback.img
|----initramfs-linux.img
|----loader
|    |--entries
|    |   |--arch.conf
|    |
|    |--loader.conf
|
|----vmlinuz-linux

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#9 2014-11-09 19:19:35

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Re: gummiboot menu does not appear

As I said, I think you need to research how to boot an LVM-based system via gummiboot -- I'm pretty sure it can be done, I just don't know how...

This looks highly relevant:
https://gist.github.com/jasonwryan/4618490
http://jasonwryan.com/blog/2013/01/25/uefi/

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#10 2014-11-09 20:02:51

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Re: gummiboot menu does not appear

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:

As I said, I think you need to research how to boot an LVM-based system via gummiboot -- I'm pretty sure it can be done, I just don't know how...

This looks highly relevant:
https://gist.github.com/jasonwryan/4618490
http://jasonwryan.com/blog/2013/01/25/uefi/

It is more or less as I have done. The only difference is that I mount ESP partition in the default recommended place /boot rather than in a non-standard one.
Using default /boot location, initramfs-linux*.img are updated automatically when arch linux is updated. No need to do anything more.

I have checked a lot of wikis but without no luck ;(

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#11 2014-11-09 22:01:12

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Re: gummiboot menu does not appear

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:

As I said, I think you need to research how to boot an LVM-based system via gummiboot -- I'm pretty sure it can be done, I just don't know how...

This looks highly relevant:
https://gist.github.com/jasonwryan/4618490
http://jasonwryan.com/blog/2013/01/25/uefi/

I have found another link which talks about LVM and EFI:
http://www.rodsbooks.com/efi-bootloader … ation.html

It similar to my case. As commented I use default standard location for EFI, that is, /boot.

Still searching for a solution.........

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#12 2014-11-09 22:12:28

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Re: gummiboot menu does not appear

What does efibootmgr report?

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#13 2014-11-10 00:24:22

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Re: gummiboot menu does not appear

jasonwryan wrote:

What does efibootmgr report?

First of all I have added an entry manually using efibootmgr by typing below command:

efibootmgr -c -d /dev/sdXY -p Y -l /EFI/gummiboot/gummibootx64.efi -L "Gummiboot"

Its output is:

BootCurrent: 0011
Timeout: 2 seconds
BootOrder: 0004,0011,0000,0001,0002,0003
Boot0000* Windows Boot Manager
Boot0001* UEFI: IP4 Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller
Boot0002* UEFI: IP6 Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller
Boot0003* Linux Boot Manager
Boot0011* UEFI: Generic Flash Disk 8.07
Boot0004* Gummiboot

efibootmgr reports below when typing: efibootmgr -v

BootCurrent: 0011
Timeout: 2 seconds
BootOrder: 0004,0011,0000,0001,0002,0003
Boot0000* Windows Boot Manager
Error in 'efibootmgr': free() : invalid pointer: 0x.............
===== Backtrace ==========
/usr/lib/libc.so.6 (......)
efibootmgr [.....]
/usr/lib/libc.so.6 (_libc_start_main+0xf0)[.....]
efibootmgr[......]
===== Memory map ========
.................... /usr/lib/efibootmgr
.................... /usr/lib/libgcc-5.so.1
.................... /usr/lib/libdl-2.20.so
.................... /usr/lib/libresolv.2.20.so
.................... /usr/lib/libc.2.20.so
.................... /usr/lib/libefivar.so.0
.................... /usr/lib/libpci.so.3.2.1
.................... /usr/lib/ld-2.20.so

I have tried to output the results of 'efibootmgr -v' to a file and the paste to it but I don't know how to do it (tee command not working and neither redirection 2>)

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#14 2014-11-10 00:30:20

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Re: gummiboot menu does not appear

toni wrote:
jasonwryan wrote:

What does efibootmgr report?

First of all I have added an entry manually using efibootmgr by typing below command:

efibootmgr -c -d /dev/sdXY -p Y -l /EFI/gummiboot/gummibootx64.efi -L "Gummiboot"

Well, /dev/sdXY won't work...


toni wrote:

Its output is:

BootCurrent: 0011
Timeout: 2 seconds
BootOrder: 0004,0011,0000,0001,0002,0003
Boot0000* Windows Boot Manager
Boot0001* UEFI: IP4 Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller
Boot0002* UEFI: IP6 Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller
Boot0003* Linux Boot Manager
Boot0011* UEFI: Generic Flash Disk 8.07
Boot0004* Gummiboot

Try setting next boot to 0003 and see if that helps.


toni wrote:

efibootmgr reports below when typing: efibootmgr -v

BootCurrent: 0011
Timeout: 2 seconds
BootOrder: 0004,0011,0000,0001,0002,0003
Boot0000* Windows Boot Manager
Error in 'efibootmgr': free() : invalid pointer: 0x.............
===== Backtrace ==========
/usr/lib/libc.so.6 (......)
efibootmgr [.....]
/usr/lib/libc.so.6 (_libc_start_main+0xf0)[.....]
efibootmgr[......]
===== Memory map ========
.................... /usr/lib/efibootmgr
.................... /usr/lib/libgcc-5.so.1
.................... /usr/lib/libdl-2.20.so
.................... /usr/lib/libresolv.2.20.so
.................... /usr/lib/libc.2.20.so
.................... /usr/lib/libefivar.so.0
.................... /usr/lib/libpci.so.3.2.1
.................... /usr/lib/ld-2.20.so

That looks bad...

toni wrote:

I have tried to output the results of 'efibootmgr -v' to a file and the paste to it but I don't know how to do it (tee command not working and neither redirection 2>)

efibootmgr -v > file

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#15 2014-11-10 01:02:48

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Re: gummiboot menu does not appear

Well, /dev/sdXY won't work...

When I have specified sdXY, I  mean, in my case is for example sdc4 (X is c and Y is 4)

Try setting next boot to 0003 and see if that helps.

I have changed boot order using:

efibootmgr -o 0004,0003,0000,0011,0001,0002

in order for Gummiboot to boot first.

Also I have set next boot to 0003 using:

efibootmgr -n 0003

but again when I restart my laptop..... it access to hdd trying to do something (I guess booting in the order specified maybe?) but finally Win8.1 boots up..... no gummiboot menu shown even if I press space bar during boot


efibootmgr -v > file

Redirection to a file does not work.

Also, Why BootCurrent cannot be changed? and how to solve the errors shown by efibootmgr -v?

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#16 2014-11-13 23:57:59

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Re: gummiboot menu does not appear

I have installed below packages:

efibootmgr 0.11.0-1
efivar 0.15-1

Now "efibootmgr -v" outputs correct information without crashing and I can redirect it to a file (see below). It was a problem of an incompatibility version between efibootmgr 0.8 and efivar 0.15-1.

efibootmgr -v

BootCurrent: 0005
Timeout: 2 seconds
BootOrder: 0005,0000,0001,0002,0003,0004,0002,0000,0000
Boot0000* Windows Boot Manager	HD(2,200800,32000,977cd65a-eba5-11e3-b3df-60029210ec8f)File(\EFI\Microsoft\Boot\bootmgfw.efi)WINDOWS.........x...B.C.D.O.B.J.E.C.T.=.{.9.d.e.a.8.6.2.c.-.5.c.d.d.-.4.e.7.0.-.a.c.c.1.-.f.3.2.b.3.4.4.d.4.7.9.5.}....................
Boot0001* UEFI: IP4 Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller	ACPI(a0341d0,0)PCI(1c,3)PCI(0,0)MAC(MAC(d897ba11434f,0)..BO
Boot0002* UEFI: IP6 Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller	ACPI(a0341d0,0)PCI(1c,3)PCI(0,0)MAC(MAC(d897ba11434f,0)030d3c000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000004000000000000000000000000000000000..BO
Boot0003* Linux Boot Manager	HD(4,2522e800,200000,1af51a36-df2b-48ce-b0df-727d1dacdf30)File(\EFI\gummiboot\gummibootx64.efi)
Boot0004* Gummiboot	HD(4,2522e800,200000,1af51a36-df2b-48ce-b0df-727d1dacdf30)File(\EFI\gummiboot\gummibootx64.efi)
Boot0005* UEFI: Generic Flash Disk 8.07	ACPI(a0341d0,0)PCI(14,0)USB(3,0)HD(1,800,1dfc00,0002ffa3)..BO

I have observed that in my EFI partition a new folder grub has been created after installing new efibootmgr 0.11.0-1. Now my boot partition (EFI System partition) looks like below:


/boot
|-- EFI
|   |-- Boot
|   |   `-- BOOTX64.EFI
|   `-- gummiboot
|       `-- gummibootx64.efi
|-- grub
|   `-- grub.cfg
|-- initramfs-linux-fallback.img
|-- initramfs-linux.img
|-- loader
|   |-- entries
|   |   `-- arch.conf
|   `-- loader.conf
`-- vmlinuz-linux

6 directories, 8 files

Also I posted here my blkid output:

/dev/sda1: LABEL="ARCH_201411" UUID="CE97-B268" TYPE="vfat" PARTUUID="0002ffa3-01"
/dev/sdb2: UUID="d95a78a9-f22c-4558-ac49-cec0cf2f980f" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="5cbfd28a-df68-4752-86d8-9863f2a0969f"
/dev/sdb3: UUID="Q5w0H1-Efb8-H03m-un9v-wsqG-vT8t-3yeSY3" TYPE="LVM2_member" PARTUUID="7f33830c-d668-4cfa-92f5-84835f4c9fbf"
/dev/sdb4: LABEL="UEFI" UUID="DED6-7DD2" TYPE="vfat" PARTUUID="1af51a36-df2b-48ce-b0df-727d1dacdf30"
/dev/sdc1: LABEL="System" UUID="7496938096934192" TYPE="ntfs" PARTLABEL="Basic data partition" PARTUUID="977cd652-eba5-11e3-b3df-60029210ec8f"
/dev/sdc2: UUID="4094-1C14" TYPE="vfat" PARTLABEL="Basic data partition" PARTUUID="977cd65a-eba5-11e3-b3df-60029210ec8f"
/dev/sdc3: UUID="C0C09561C0955F0A" TYPE="ntfs" PARTLABEL="Basic data partition" PARTUUID="977cd65c-eba5-11e3-b3df-60029210ec8f"
/dev/sdc4: LABEL="TI31299800C" UUID="3ED09800D097BC99" TYPE="ntfs" PARTLABEL="Basic data partition" PARTUUID="977cd664-eba5-11e3-b3df-60029210ec8f"
/dev/sdc5: LABEL="Recovery" UUID="48801C7E801C74A2" TYPE="ntfs" PARTLABEL="Basic data partition" PARTUUID="7ede7fc5-3852-11e4-9167-d897ba11434f"
/dev/loop0: TYPE="squashfs"
/dev/loop1: UUID="ece4aa52-a24f-4585-a448-f43320f58b05" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/loop2: UUID="ece4aa52-a24f-4585-a448-f43320f58b05" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/mapper/arch_airootfs: UUID="ece4aa52-a24f-4585-a448-f43320f58b05" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-lvolswap: UUID="40b01f68-9104-4213-bd81-e76050b97492" TYPE="swap"
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-lvolhome: UUID="9cdde0e7-2fb9-470c-8592-075d34a26999" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-lvolroot: UUID="b43132f0-7cee-4d3a-a634-40f3ce4f133f" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-lvolvar: UUID="a5ad70cb-25ef-462a-9962-ff321f266bca" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/sdb1: PARTUUID="6d28aac9-0ca1-4345-9257-a4d97508e98d"

Anyway, gummiboot menu does not appear so I cannot boot into arch linux. Why?

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Re: gummiboot menu does not appear

Please don't crosspost. I'll close the other thread as this has a more meaningful title...

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#18 2014-11-14 00:40:25

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Re: gummiboot menu does not appear

jasonwryan wrote:

Please don't crosspost. I'll close the other thread as this has a more meaningful title...

Ok, sorry. I forgot to mark that as solved. Thanks for closing it.

I cannot boot into arch linux using EFI partition and LVM.

Now efibootmgr outputs information correctly without any error.

Could you help me, please? I don't know why but gummiboot menu does not appear.

My firmware has Secure boot disabled and UEFI only enabled.

I highly appreciate if you can help me.

My EFI partition is mounted on /boot as recomended in gummiboot wiki.

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#19 2014-11-14 00:54:34

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Re: gummiboot menu does not appear

See hbar's comment in your other thread...

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#20 2014-11-14 01:23:42

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Re: gummiboot menu does not appear

jasonwryan wrote:

See hbar's comment in your other thread...


Yes, I have seen that. He says that it is an incompatibility between efivar 0.15-1 and efibootmgr 0.8. He says that it will be solve in comming efibootmgr 0.11
efibootmgr 0.11.0-1 is already available so I have updated efibootmgr from 0.8 to 0.11.0-1 but it does not work, I mean, gummiboot menu does not appear.

Also before rebooting I have set the boot order to boot first gummiboot and then windows. Also I have set next boot to gummiboot. See below:

BootNext: 0004
BootCurrent: 0005
Timeout: 2 seconds
BootOrder: 0004,0003,0005,0000,0001,0002
Boot0000* Windows Boot Manager	HD(2,200800,32000,977cd65a-eba5-11e3-b3df-60029210ec8f)File(\EFI\Microsoft\Boot\bootmgfw.efi)WINDOWS.........x...B.C.D.O.B.J.E.C.T.=.{.9.d.e.a.8.6.2.c.-.5.c.d.d.-.4.e.7.0.-.a.c.c.1.-.f.3.2.b.3.4.4.d.4.7.9.5.}....................
Boot0001* UEFI: IP4 Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller	ACPI(a0341d0,0)PCI(1c,3)PCI(0,0)MAC(MAC(d897ba11434f,0)..BO
Boot0002* UEFI: IP6 Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller	ACPI(a0341d0,0)PCI(1c,3)PCI(0,0)MAC(MAC(d897ba11434f,0)030d3c000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000004000000000000000000000000000000000..BO
Boot0003* Linux Boot Manager	HD(4,2522e800,200000,1af51a36-df2b-48ce-b0df-727d1dacdf30)File(\EFI\gummiboot\gummibootx64.efi)
Boot0004* Gummiboot	HD(4,2522e800,200000,1af51a36-df2b-48ce-b0df-727d1dacdf30)File(\EFI\gummiboot\gummibootx64.efi)
Boot0005* UEFI: Generic Flash Disk 8.07	ACPI(a0341d0,0)PCI(14,0)USB(3,0)HD(1,800,1dfc00,0002ffa3)..BO

So with the configuration above indicated, If I reboot my system, gummiboot menu does not appear. Entries in the above sample are pointing to the correct HDD. As hbar said, it seems like efibootmgr cannot found /boot.....
but I don't understand why. All my configuration indicated in this post seems ok. When computer reboots, blank screen is shown, my external USB HDD Leds begins to blink, no gummiboot menu is shown and after a few seconds, windows starts automatically....

hbar says that he doubts efibootmgr touches /boot so how can I check that? My EFI partition is mounted in /boot which  is the recommended by gummiboot wiki, so what's the problem?

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#21 2014-11-14 08:12:03

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Re: gummiboot menu does not appear

Please post the output of:

# parted -l
lsblk -f

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#22 2014-11-14 20:35:13

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Re: gummiboot menu does not appear

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:

Please post the output of:

# parted -l
lsblk -f

Below the results. Note that:
/dev/sda : It is my laptop internal HDD
/dev/sdb : It is arch linux live in a USB stick
/dev/sdc : It is my arch linux installation in external HDD USB. /dev/sdc4 is the EFI System Partition (/boot partition where gummiboot is installed).

and my firmware boot order is: USB, HDD and then ODD (Optical Disk Drive, CD/DVD drive)
and secure boot is disabled in firmware and ONLY UEFI boot enabled.

so as my arch linux is in the external HDD USB it should be booted first.


parted -l

Model: ATA HGST HTS541010A9 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 1000GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags: 

Number  Start   End     Size    File system  Name                  Flags
 1      1049kB  1075MB  1074MB  ntfs         Basic data partition  hidden, diag
 2      1075MB  1180MB  105MB   fat32        Basic data partition  boot, esp
 3      1180MB  1314MB  134MB   ntfs         Basic data partition  msftres
 4      1314MB  989GB   988GB   ntfs         Basic data partition  msftdata
 5      989GB   1000GB  11.3GB  ntfs         Basic data partition  hidden, diag


Model: Generic Flash Disk (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdb: 1007MB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Disk Flags: 

Number  Start   End     Size    Type     File system  Flags
 1      1049kB  1007MB  1006MB  primary  fat32        boot, lba


Model: TOSHIBA MK3252GSX (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdc: 320GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags: 

Number  Start   End     Size    File system  Name  Flags
 1      1049kB  3146kB  2097kB                     bios_grub
 2      3146kB  1077MB  1074MB  ext4               msftdata
 3      1077MB  319GB   318GB                      lvm
 4      319GB   320GB   1074MB  fat32              boot, esp

lsblk -f

NAME                    FSTYPE LABEL UUID MOUNTPOINT
sda                                       
|-sda1                                    
|-sda2                                    
|-sda3                                    
|-sda4                                    
`-sda5                                    
sdb                                       
`-sdb1                                    
sdc                                       
|-sdc1                                    
|-sdc2                                    
|-sdc3                                    
| |-VolGroup00-lvolswap                   
| |-VolGroup00-lvolhome                   /home
| |-VolGroup00-lvolroot                   /
| `-VolGroup00-lvolvar                    /var
`-sdc4                                    /boot
sr0                                       
loop0                                     
loop1                                     
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#23 2014-11-14 20:47:47

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Re: gummiboot menu does not appear

toni wrote:

Also, after installing gummiboot in the new EFI partition recently created, the files vmlinuz-linux, initramfs-linux-fallback.img and initramfs-linux.img do not exist in /boot (ESP partition). Why?
Do I have to copy manually from the old /boot partiton? Why gummiboot installer does not copy or created them automatically?

Yes, you have to copy the contents over.

Your arch.conf should have "root=UUID=b43132f0-7cee-4d3a-a634-40f3ce4f133f rw"
I think...

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#24 2014-11-14 21:13:11

toni
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Re: gummiboot menu does not appear

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:
toni wrote:

Also, after installing gummiboot in the new EFI partition recently created, the files vmlinuz-linux, initramfs-linux-fallback.img and initramfs-linux.img do not exist in /boot (ESP partition). Why?
Do I have to copy manually from the old /boot partiton? Why gummiboot installer does not copy or created them automatically?

Yes, you have to copy the contents over.

Your arch.conf should have "root=UUID=b43132f0-7cee-4d3a-a634-40f3ce4f133f rw"
I think...

I have just tried this, so arch.conf looks like:

title        Arch Linux
linux      /vmlinuz-linux
initrd      /initramfs-linux.img
options root=UUID=b43132f0-7cee-4d3a-a634-40f3ce4f133f rw
#options  root=/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-lvolroot rw

but still not working ;(

I am wondering if vmlinuz-linux is correct.... How can I force vmlinuz-linux to be re-generated again? If I do mkinitcpio -p linux it only re-generates initramfs-linux.img and initramfs-fallback-linux.img
I want to be sure that vmlinuz-linux is correct as I have copied it from my old /boot when BIOS-GPT was present in my arch linux installation.

Also, as gummiboot is a boot manager and not a bootloader, do I need to have a boot loader installed as well? or is it not necessary?

Last edited by toni (2014-11-14 21:33:43)

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#25 2014-11-14 21:33:41

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Re: gummiboot menu does not appear

As I have already said, you have to copy the contents of your original /boot over.

vmlinuz can be re-created using:

# pacman -Syu linux

If you haven't copied /boot over, then there is no kernel for gummiboot to, er, boot...

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