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0x33

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Registered: 2015-03-10

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[SOLVED]UEFI boot gives 'failed to install override security policy'

Hi, newb here who has hit a dead end quite early in the process of installing Arch.

When trying to boot Arch into EFI mode, it says

'failed to install override security policy'

Of course I did my research and it seems that only three other people on this planet have had the same problem, and their solutions do not work for me.
http://superuser.com/questions/615142/u … ity-policy

Overwriting EFI/boot/bootx64.efi with loader.efi enables me to see a menu where I can choose from booting Arch, UEFI shell v1 or UEFI shell v2. Still, selecting Arch results in a blank screen with two grey bars at the top and bottom of the screen, so not really not much help.
I'm not a UNIX nor an EFI wizard, so please bear with me. I'm a Windows user with some anecdotal Linux knowledge (I have installed Ubuntu countless times, wanted a bit of a challenge this time) who wanted to make the switch to the Linux ecosystem, but this error prevents me from doing so. I also tried to install rEFInd as suggested here: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=174734
But I seem to be unable to boot into any UEFI shell v2, it's also printing the errors:

ASSERT_EFI_ERROR (Status = Not Found) 
ASSERT C:\svn_code...and so on )

My Windows installation is on BIOS/MBR, so I cannot install rEFInd manually using Windows, and I also cannot use the v1 UEFI shell because of the lacking bcfg command. I don't know how to procede from here. My board is an AsRock P67 Extreme4 Rev 09 with a 2.10 EFI. This board doesn't even have Secure Boot if I'm correct, I also searched every possible submenu of the EFI for an option to disable Secure Boot, but haven't found anything.

Last edited by 0x33 (2015-03-11 17:35:56)

Head_on_a_Stick

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Re: [SOLVED]UEFI boot gives 'failed to install override security policy'

I presume you are trying to use gummiboot?

Please post the contents of /boot/loader/loader.conf and also your gummiboot configuration file for your Arch system (if you are not using gummiboot post the config. files for whichever boot loader/manager you are using).

Load the Arch live ISO, mount all your partitions and `arch-chroot` into your system and then post the output of:

lsblk -f
# parted -l
# efibootmgr -v

Last edited by Head_on_a_Stick (2015-03-10 21:05:43)

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Re: [SOLVED]UEFI boot gives 'failed to install override security policy'

@ HoaS, OP can't even boot the ISO Unless tryng the MBR mode first. Then third command will fail.
So first, try to boot in MBR mode and show off your partition scheme.
Definitely it's necessary to have a ESP, that's what we want to know.
In a certain way, once you'll finish your installation you may use the windows boot loader to drive you to load the grub or the kernel. The latter I'm not aware of how would be possible, I just guess it is.

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0x33

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Re: [SOLVED]UEFI boot gives 'failed to install override security policy'

Eh, I think I have experienced two different errors here. I managed to get into the menu by switching bootx64.efi for loader.efi, but selecting Arch from the menu gives me a blank screen. I think this is yet another bug, so I opened a different topic. https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 2#p1510402
This thread is marked as solved.

Last edited by 0x33 (2015-03-11 17:36:10)