https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=800035 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=800035#c2 --- Comment #2 from Andrey Borzenkov 2013-01-23 09:18:56 UTC --- Also could try to boot using on ELILO prompt: linux add_efi_memmap -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=800035 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=800035#c4 Steffen Winterfeldt changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |duwe@suse.com, rw@suse.com AssignedTo|bnc-team-screening@forge.pr |mchang@suse.com |ovo.novell.com | --- Comment #4 from Steffen Winterfeldt 2013-02-21 12:02:29 CET --- We have such a machine here and it doesn't work with 12.3 (using grub2) either. What happens is: 1) using linuxefi, the 'boot' command just hangs 2) using 'linux' 'boot' fails with "couldn't terminate EFI services" and grub2 says "overlap detected" after the next few commands. Also, grub2 thinks it's in a submenu. When you return to the main menu you can then boot with both 'linux' or 'linuxefi'. So this looks like an issue with the inspiron's bios (google shows similar reports). I don't know enough about efi internals to debug this further, though. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=800035 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=800035#c6 Steffen Winterfeldt changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |coolo@suse.com, | |snwint@suse.com --- Comment #6 from Steffen Winterfeldt 2013-02-21 17:11:40 CET --- coolo has it now -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=800035 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=800035#c8 --- Comment #8 from Stephan Kulow 2013-02-21 17:29:16 CET --- I assume I'm too stupid to use grub2, but lsefimmap and lsmap are not valid commands here. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=800035 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=800035#c10 David Declerck changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |davdeclerck@yahoo.fr --- Comment #10 from David Declerck 2013-02-21 21:52:12 UTC --- I have some additional information. I have tried with ELILO 3.14 (compiled by myself), with the same result (OpenSuSE 12.2 comes with version 3.12). So, I decided to have a look at the code and went for a dirty (really, really, really dirty) hack. Basically, this part of the code in elilo.c is where the error happens : 272 retry: 273 status = uefi_call_wrapper(BS->ExitBootServices, 2, image, cookie); 274 if (EFI_ERROR(status)) 275 { 276 ERR_PRT((L"\nExitBootSvcs: failed, memory map has changed.\n")); 277 if (retries < 2) 278 { 279 ERR_PRT((L"Main_Loop: Retrying,... have to rebuild boot params")); 280 retries++; 281 free_boot_params(bp); 282 if ((bp=create_boot_params(cmdline, &imem, &mmem, &cookie)) == 0) goto error; 283 goto retry; 284 } else { 285 ERR_PRT((L"\nMain_Loop: tried ExitBootSvcs 3 times... retries exceeded.... giving up\n")); 286 goto bad_exit; 287 } 288 } The call to uefi_call_wrapper on line 273 returns an error code. Subsequent calls also return an error code. Well, I completely ignored the return code (commenting out lines 274-288), and doing so, the system boots (and "seems" to operate normally, although this still has to be proven, considering how dirty this hack is). The SourceForge project for ELILO mentions this : "The x86_64 implementation converts the EFI memory map into E820 map and passes it in the bootparameter supplied to the kernel". Maybe the error lies somewhere in this conversion ? I'm not familiar with these notions... -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=800035 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=800035#c12 --- Comment #12 from Stephan Kulow 2013-03-05 09:12:22 CET --- The laptop is still sitting here with just win8, you can CC me. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=800035 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=800035#c14 --- Comment #14 from Stephan Kulow 2013-03-08 09:04:12 CET --- Hmm, I'm not sure how. I have no live USB that I can change easily - as they are ISOs and I have no linux installation on that system (as I can't boot UEFI I can't install without erasing w8) -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=800035 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=800035#c16 --- Comment #16 from Andrey Borzenkov 2013-03-08 08:17:39 UTC --- (In reply to comment #8)

I assume I'm too stupid to use grub2, but lsefimmap and lsmap are not valid commands here.

Oh, stupid me. You did it off installation DVD? I guess, it does not even include those modules (and if grub is signed, module loading is disabled anyway). -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=800035 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=800035#c18 --- Comment #18 from Michael Chang 2013-03-08 08:51:38 UTC --- (In reply to comment #16)

Oh, stupid me. You did it off installation DVD? I guess, it does not even include those modules (and if grub is signed, module loading is disabled anyway).

If turn off secure boot the module loading is revived. Can't we use grub2-mkresuce to create a iso and test booting via disable secure boot .. ? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=800035 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=800035#c20 --- Comment #20 from Andrey Borzenkov 2013-03-08 10:02:11 UTC --- (In reply to comment #19)

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It should be possible to install in legacy BIOS mode on GPT. There was (is) YaST2 bug that it defaults to installing bootloader on partition even on GPT, which does not work; so you need to make sure it is installed in MBR.

That's not true. There is (should, at least) bootcode added to the protective MBR that can boot off GPT.

This is bnc#794126, I see it is marked as fixed, so hopefully it works now. It did install generic MBR which tried to boot off active partition, but there is no active partition with GPT. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=800035 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=800035#c22 --- Comment #22 from Andrey Borzenkov 2013-03-08 11:17:43 UTC --- (In reply to comment #18)

(In reply to comment #16)

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Oh, stupid me. You did it off installation DVD? I guess, it does not even include those modules (and if grub is signed, module loading is disabled anyway).

If turn off secure boot the module loading is revived. Can't we use grub2-mkresuce to create a iso and test booting via disable secure boot .. ?

I created http://dl.dropbox.com/u/25585681/bnc800035.iso with i386-pc, i386-efi and x86_64-efi and linux kernel so we have something to boot. Boot from ISO and issue (TAB completion works) linux (cd)/vmlinuz-3.7.10-1.1-desktop initrd (cd)/initrd-3.7.10-1.1-desktop boot -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=800035 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=800035#c24 --- Comment #24 from Andrey Borzenkov 2013-03-08 12:31:13 UTC --- (In reply to comment #23)

it booted, but it wasn't seen as UEFI device, so I could only test legacy

I tested in QEMU with OVMF EFI BIOS, it boots. When booted in EFI, device is called (cd0), at least here. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=800035 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=800035#c26 Andrey Borzenkov changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |NEEDINFO InfoProvider| |coolo@suse.com --- Comment #26 from Andrey Borzenkov 2013-03-08 13:09:37 UTC --- Could you try do "insmod all_video" as the first command? Should fix "no suitable video mode found". -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=800035 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=800035#c28 --- Comment #28 from Max Meister 2013-04-18 12:50:05 UTC --- lsmmap and lsefimmap are present on the installation DVD, i could load them and took some screenshots. lsmmap-1 - http://susepaste.org/56557191 lsmmap-2 - http://susepaste.org/19612253 lsmmap-3 - http://susepaste.org/49569458 lsmmap-4 - http://susepaste.org/7734625 lsefimmap-1 - http://susepaste.org/83498125 lsefimmap-2 - http://susepaste.org/88447177 lsefimmap-3 - http://susepaste.org/44084063 lsefimmap-3 - http://susepaste.org/7321773 -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=800035 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=800035#c30 Jeffrey Cheung changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |CLOSED CC| |jcheung@suse.com InfoProvider|mmeister@suse.com | Resolution| |WONTFIX --- Comment #30 from Jeffrey Cheung 2014-02-11 04:27:13 UTC --- First great to hear that new ELILO v3.16 fixed the issue. With the release of the gnumeric on January 27th, 2014 the SUSE sponsored maintenance of openSUSE 12.2 has ended. openSUSE 12.2 is now officially discontinued and out of support by SUSE. So, I am going to close this issue as WONTFIX. If openSUSE 13.1 has the same problem, please create a new one and place your comment of using ELILO v3.16 as the solution. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.