Re: Can't boot Linux on Non-Macintosh EFI laptop

[Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko]

Alexander Brüning wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've got a Clevo M860TU Notebook that comes with a Phoenix SecureCore
> NB BIOS which has a legacy and an EFI mode. Windows 7 (64 Bit) boots
> fine in EFI mode but I can't get GRUB2 (I tried 1.97.1 with target=efi
> and arch=amd64) to work properly. Here's what I did:
>
> 1.) Install Windows in EFI mode
> 2.) Install Linux in legacy mode (didn't find any working CD)
> 3.) Rename the "/efi/microsoft" folder on the EFI partition and
> overwrite the two .efi-files in "/efi/boot" with a GRUB image
> 4.) Reboot in EFI mode
> 5.) GRUB command line comes up (strangely with yellow text), try to
> boot "linux (hd0,5)/boot/bzImage"
I have yellow in tianocore too.
> 6.) "error: cannot allocate protected mode pages"
>
I have a way to solve it with my relocators but they need at the moment
I haven't ported linux loader to relocator framework and it will
probably take another week to do so.
> Any help appreciated,
>
> Alexander Bruening
>
>
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Regards
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko

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