Re: Grub2 chainloader bootmgfw.efi not working

[Andrei Borzenkov]

14.09.2015 15:36, Vyacheslav Gonakhchyan пишет:
> My Grub2 is EFI. I use grub-install --target=x86_64-efi
> --efi-directory=/boot/efi /dev/sda which calls efibootmgr to load
> grubx64.efi into UEFI BIOS.

OK in this case message means that grub cannot find EFI handle for $root 
(i.e. in your case - partition gpt7). GRUB itself needs just disk 
reference and handles partitions internally. But when launching external 
binary it wants to pass it reference to device where it is located which 
means it must be exported and accessible by firmware.

The first step would be to try to reproduce it using upstream sources.

> > echo $grub_cpu $grub_platform
> Sorry, can only check it later. I'm guessing x86_64, efi-64...
>
> On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 4:11 PM, Andrei Borzenkov <address@hidden>
> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 2:36 PM, Vyacheslav Gonakhchyan
> > <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > Hi, everyone!
> > >
> > > I have dual boot config Archlinux/Windows7 and latest packages. I am
> > booted
> > > into grub rescue mode. Or use command line. I want to tell Grub2 to load
> > > Windows Boot Loader bootmgfw.efi. Basically grub2 refuses to do it with
> > > error "invalid root device".
> > >
> > > Steps to reproduce:
> > > > set root=(hd1,gpt7)
> > > > chainloader /EFI/Microsoft/Boot/bootmgfw.efi
> > > Screen is flashing with "invalid root device".
> >
> > Is your grub BIOS or EFI? What are values for grub_cpu and grub_platform?
> >
> > echo $grub_cpu $grub_platform
> >
> > > So grub2 finds bootmgfw.efi but cannot give it control. I tried every
> > other
> > > hd1,gpt combination to no avail.  I also tried setting root to one device
> > > and loading bootmgfw.efi from another device(hd1,gpt7).
> > > It's strange because I can load this file from shell (shellx64.efi)
> > within
> > > UEFI BIOS without error. Any advice is appreciated.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Viacheslav
> > >
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