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tweezerhead

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From: USA

Registered: 2009-08-05

Posts: 9

[WORKAROUND] Can only boot after exiting EFI Shell

Hello there, What happens is  when I boot, this is an EFI, if I boot directly to GRUB I get the menu then the messages:

Loading Linux core repo kernel ...
Loading initial ramdisk ...

Then is just stops. There are no more messages or any thing. The only way I have found is to boot into EFI Shell then exit the shell which drops into grub which will then boot all the way.

I have efibootmgr set to boot into EFI Shell. The startup.nsh just runs 'exit'.

grub2-common 1:2.00beta2-3
grub2-efi-x86_64 1:2.00beta2-2
Linux 3.2.13-1
root/boot are a single partition. Filestsyem is btrfs compressed zlib on an SSD.

I hope this is clear enough.

Last edited by tweezerhead (2012-04-06 00:13:34)

carbon64

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Registered: 2012-03-23

Posts: 14

Re: [WORKAROUND] Can only boot after exiting EFI Shell

My install behaves this way also. I can only boot through the UEFI BIOS firmware.

Continwm

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From: P

Registered: 2011-05-03

Posts: 7

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Re: [WORKAROUND] Can only boot after exiting EFI Shell

I ran into very similar problem today, except that I'm using grub-bios.
Booting 3.2.13-1 fails at "loading initial ramdisk...", with no error message or whatsoever. The lts kernel also fails.

It turns out the downgrading the kernel from 3.2.13-1 to 3.2.11-1 fixes the problem.

tweezerhead

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From: USA

Registered: 2009-08-05

Posts: 9

Re: [WORKAROUND] Can only boot after exiting EFI Shell

Continwm thanks for the info. This got me thinking that I first saw the problem with the 3.2.11 > 3.2.12 update. I found other people having similar problems on newer GigaByte and Asus mobos linke I have. Anyway the kernel boot option pcie_aspm=force is working for me.