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BODYPRINT

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Registered: 2016-07-02

Posts: 12

exit_boot() failed! efi_boot() failed! only on cold boot

Hey all,

Linux and Arch newbie here. Built from barebones.
Was quite an experience as I'm dual booting off a Soft SSD RAID0.

I'm having a small issue which I honestly have no idea how to debug though.

I'm using SYSTEMD-BOOT as my loader.
When I turn my computer on it has the System selection menu for 5 seconds then I get...
exit_boot() failed!
efi_boot() failed!

and it doesn't boot.

But then if I hit the reset button it boots up no problem.
It's only from Cold Boot that it errors out!
I tried pressing e at the selection menu and waiting longer to see if a device needed more time to initialise but didn't make any difference.

I know if there's a USB stick in it will do this every time for some reason. So I assume it's USB related and other forums seem to lean toward this as well.

How would I start to work out what is causing this please?

Cheers!

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 21,657

Re: exit_boot() failed! efi_boot() failed! only on cold boot

Sounds like a firmware bug, update your UEFI if you can. You will probably have to reinstall systemd-boot after doing that.

BODYPRINT

Member

Registered: 2016-07-02

Posts: 12

Re: exit_boot() failed! efi_boot() failed! only on cold boot

Thanks V1del.
My MB has the latest firmware. It's an MSI X87 and no firmware since 2014.

I think it was my racing wheel when plugged in. Still a weird problem.
Why can't I boot up with a USB stick in?

V1del

Forum Moderator

Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 21,657

Re: exit_boot() failed! efi_boot() failed! only on cold boot

MSIs have a boat load of UEFI issues so that's quite likely, check through your settings whether you can tell it to only poll very specific devices. It probably just randomly tries to run EFI commands on any USB port connected and then fails horribly on "incompatible" devices.