Re: Debian 12 USB install hangs on GRUB command line

From	Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Debian 12 USB install hangs on GRUB command line
Date	2024-12-17 00:00 +0100
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On Mon, 16 Dec 2024 18:50:02 +0000
Joe <joe@jretrading.com> wrote:

> So I gave up, and just installed bookworm clean. No bootable OS found.
> I'll cut it short: it wouldn't boot because a /boot/efi/EFI directory
> did not contain a Microsoft directory containing bootmgfw.efi.
> Previously, it had been happy to boot from the Linux EFI file, but
> obviously only because this wretched Windows setup was there. Just to
> be on the safe side, I copied shim64.efi and renamed it bootmgfw.efi,
> all in a directory named Microsoft. No problem now.
> 
> Certainly if the computer firmware is expecting UEFI boot software,
> the /boot/efi partition must be occupied i.e. the installer must have
> recognised its environment and started in UEFI mode (the splash screen
> will say so). It may be possible to force the firmware to legacy mode,
> but my netbook doesn't have this option.

Interesting.

I have a brand new computer which has never in its life seen hide nor
hair of any Microsoft product. I ordered it with no OS, and verified
that it came that way before I did any installation. I then installed
from "Debian GNU/Linux 12.6.0 "Bookworm" - Official amd64 NETINST with
firmware 20240629-10:18". It does not have bootmgfw.efi on it. It does,
however, have shimx64.efi and several other files, all in
/boot/efi/EFI/debian/.

In the debian installer's disk partitioner, there is an option to lay
down a file system. Within that, there are several options: ext2, swap,
etc.. One of them is for an EFI file system, separate from various FAT
options. That is the option I used to manually create my EFI partition.

Let that be a lesson: look for and use that EFI option!

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Debian 12 USB install hangs on GRUB command line Roger Price <debian@rogerprice.org> - 2024-12-16 09:50 +0100
  Re: Debian 12 USB install hangs on GRUB command line "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2024-12-16 11:50 +0100
    Re: Debian 12 USB install hangs on GRUB command line Roger Price <debian@rogerprice.org> - 2024-12-17 10:50 +0100
      Re: Debian 12 USB install hangs on GRUB command line "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2024-12-17 12:00 +0100
        Re: Debian 12 USB install hangs on GRUB command line Roger Price <debian@rogerprice.org> - 2024-12-17 14:20 +0100
          Re: Debian 12 USB install hangs on GRUB command line "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2024-12-17 15:40 +0100
            Re: Debian 12 USB install hangs on GRUB command line Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2024-12-17 16:40 +0100
  Re: Debian 12 USB install hangs on GRUB command line David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2024-12-16 18:40 +0100
    Re: Debian 12 USB install hangs on GRUB command line Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2024-12-16 20:00 +0100
      Re: Debian 12 USB install hangs on GRUB command line David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2024-12-16 20:40 +0100
      Re: Debian 12 USB install hangs on GRUB command line Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2024-12-17 00:00 +0100
  Re: Debian 12 USB install hangs on GRUB command line Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2024-12-17 00:00 +0100
  Re: Debian 12 USB install hangs on GRUB command line Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2024-12-17 15:30 +0100
    Re: [SOLVED] Debian 12 USB install hangs on GRUB command line Roger Price <debian@rogerprice.org> - 2024-12-17 23:00 +0100
      Re: [SOLVED] Debian 12 USB install hangs on GRUB command line Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2024-12-18 14:10 +0100

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