Re: Cannot boot from dual bios/uefi boot CD

[Andrei Borzenkov]

On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 10:30 AM, John Frankish
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying the create a dual bios/uefi boot iso to burn to CD/DVD and boot
> both bios and uefi.
>

And your grub version is?

> The bios boot works fine
> On two different machines, the uefi boot gets to the grub menu list:
>
> On a dell laptop choosing the grub menu item boots to the linux console
> prompt, but will not accept any keyboard input
> On a mac mini the boot hangs without error message after choosing the grub
> menu item.
>
> Note that in both cases, I can enter grub commands from the prompt and can
> also edit the grub menu entries.

And it boots after that?

>                                                In addition, both the bios and 
> uefi boot
> are using the same vmlinuz and initrd files. Finally a more standard uefi
> installation to usb stick boots on both machines without problems.
>

I'm afraid I do not quite understand that. Could you be more verbose

- what "standard uefi installation to usb stick" means?
- do you use exactly the same kernel/initrd in both cases (CD and USB)?
- do you use exactly the same kernel options in both cases?
- where is kernel/initrd located in both case (boot media - CD/USB?
External HDD? Anywhere else)?
- what happens if you do not use gfxterm and use pure console?

In any case testing with current grub2 git master is always recommended.

> I'd appreciate any help and/or suggestions as to why this doesn't work -
> details below.
>
> Regards
> John
>
> The iso was created as follows:
>
> $ x86_64-grub-mkimage --format=x86_64-efi --output=BOOTX64.EFI
> --prefix=/EFI/BOOT/grub --config=/tmp/grub.cfg acpi ahci all_video appleldr
> at_keyboard bitmap_scale ata boot cat chain configfile cs5536 echo efi_gop
> efi_uga ehci ext2 fat font gfxmenu gfxterm gzio halt help hfs hfsplus
> iso9660 jpeg keylayouts linux loadbios loadenv ls minicmd normal ohci
> part_gpt part_msdos png probe regexp reboot search search_fs_file
> search_fs_uuid search_label test tga true udf ufs1 ufs2 uhci usb_keyboard
> zfs.
>
> Where /tmp/grub.cfg is:
> search.fs_label CorePure64 root
> set prefix=($root)/EFI/BOOT/grub
>
> efiboot.img created as follows:
>
> $ dd if=/dev/zero of=efiboot.img bs=1K count=1440
> $ mkdosfs -F 12 efiboot.img
> $ mkdir /tmp/image
> $ sudo mount efiboot.img /tmp/image
> $ sudo mkdir -p /tmp/image/EFI/BOOT
> $ sudo cp BOOTX64.EFI /tmp/image/EFI/BOOT
> $ sudo umount /tmp/image
>
> And copied to the iso file structure as follows:
>
> /EFI/BOOT/efiboot.img
> /EFI/BOOT/grub/grub.cfg
> /EFI/BOOT/grub/fonts/unicode.pf2
>
> Where grub.cfg is:
>
> loadfont unicode
> set gfxmode=auto
> insmod efi_gop
> insmod efi_uga
> insmod gfxterm
> terminal_output gfxterm
>
> menuentry "corepure64" {
>   linux /boot/vmlinuz64 loglevel=3
>   initrd /boot/corepure64.gz
> }
>
> And finally the iso is created as follows:
>
> $ sudo mkisofs -pad -l -r -J -V CorePure64 -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4
> -boot-info-table -b boot/isolinux/isolinux.bin -c boot/isolinux/boot.cat
> -hide-rr-moved -eltorito-alt-boot -eltorito-platform efi -b
> EFI/BOOT/efiboot.img -no-emul-boot -o CorePure64-6.0.iso /tmp/pkg
>
>
>
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