В Fri, 12 Sep 2014 23:03:12 +0200
Bruno Friedmann
For information, this is the mail that I've forwarded to efibootmgr maintainer. I suspect we have a "big" trouble in the way EFI is handled on factory actually.
For the last two weeks, I'm trying to get my new apple macbook pro 11.4 to load openSUSE Factory and face one issue. If the install goes smoothly, once it reboot the nvram is totally destroyed whenever there's or not a partition vfat for EFI.
What exactly do you mean "totally destroyed"?
The firmware load by telling there's no more bootable harddrive, you have to boot an efi usb key, and remake apple osx okay for reboot.
I've dig the internet to find a why this happen all the time ( installation of 13.1 works on it )
then I found two things which seems important for openSUSE: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1114775
This is about efibootmgr failing (or appearing to fail) to set boot entries. I see nothing about "totally destroying nvram" here.
on this bug I've seen that fedora version was 0.7.x version when our stick very old. then I discover on koji.fedoraproject.org that the efibootmgr has a new development home located at https://github.com/vathpela/efibootmgr
and there's just a new release https://github.com/vathpela/efibootmgr/releases/tag/efibootmgr-0.8.0
which seems to contain bugfixes for the issue I'm having.
- Re-encorporate workaround for Apple machines
What did you think about it ? Would you like to update the package we have on obs ?
It is not that easy, it was completely restructured and depends on another software from the same author which must be packaged as well. I backported what appears to be a fix into our 0.6.0, right now it does not build due to missing dependencies. You can check later for package availability on obs://home:arvidjaar:efibootmgr/openSUSE_Factory.
If you update it I will be able quite easily able to try it and see if it fixe the trouble. Without that, all people having a apple notebook will face the same trouble, and if they will be able to install fedora 22 openSUSE 13.2 will be not usable ....
Can we try to get this fixed ? Thanks for your attention.
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