Re: Grub2, UEFI and Asus

[Jamie Kitson]

It happens after initrd. A couple of people have now told me to
upgrade Grub, so I assume this issue is already fixed.

I did try this package, but it caused other issues, so I'll just use
BIOS for now and try when the next official efi Arch package is
released.

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=134553&p=3

Cheers, Jamie

On 23 February 2012 11:46, Jordan Uggla <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 1:54 PM, Jamie Kitson <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> is Grub2, UEFI and Asus a known issue? I just moved a working install
>> from a Thinkpad X220 to an Asus UX31E and it wouldn't boot past
>> "Loading inital ramdisk". The debug output ended with:
>
> Can you try running each command in the menu entry manually to see
> where the freeze actually happens? If the freeze happens after the
> "initrd /path/to/initrd" command then it's almost certainly a bug in
> grub. If the freeze happens after "boot" (every menu entry has an
> implied "boot" command at the end) then it's more likely a firmware
> bug or a bug somewhere in the kernel preventing a framebuffer from
> successfully being created by / handed off to the kernel. No
> framebuffer = no kernel output and apparent freeze. Sometimes the
> "noefi" kernel parameter can work around problems between [U]EFI
> firmware and the linux kernel.
>
> --
> Jordan Uggla (Jordan_U on irc.freenode.net)