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Bugzilla – Full Text Bug Listing |
| Summary: | [META] Support for 64-bit processors on motherboards with 32-bit UEFI (mixed-mode support) | ||
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| Product: | [openSUSE] openSUSE Tumbleweed | Reporter: | Jens Krieger-Juhnke <jens> |
| Component: | Basesystem | Assignee: | Bootloader Maintainers <bootloader-maintainers> |
| Status: | NEW --- | QA Contact: | E-mail List <qa-bugs> |
| Severity: | Enhancement | ||
| Priority: | P5 - None | CC: | afsalrahman51, glin, jcheung, jens, jlee, jslaby, mbenes, mchang, nwr10cst-oslnx, saahriktu, tiwai |
| Version: | Current | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | 64bit | ||
| OS: | All | ||
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| Found By: | --- | Services Priority: | |
| Business Priority: | Blocker: | --- | |
| Marketing QA Status: | --- | IT Deployment: | --- |
| Bug Depends on: | 1178338, 1178340 | ||
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Description
Jens Krieger-Juhnke
2020-05-29 16:48:39 UTC
Nothing for yast. Kernel team might help with that (?) It's so called UEFI Mixed mode, and it would need support both from bootloader and kernel. CONFIG_EFI_MIXED is already enabled in kernel, so the question would be how to detect mixed mode and install the proper UEFI bootloader. Gary, anything new here? Is anyone working on it? Anyway, it sounds like a feature request and not a bug to me. (In reply to Miroslav Beneš from comment #3) > Gary, anything new here? Is anyone working on it? Anyway, it sounds like a > feature request and not a bug to me. (Cc Michael Chang for grub2.) Yeah, it's a feature, and it would need some changes in shim, grub2, and even yast. (In reply to Gary Ching-Pang Lin from comment #4) > Yeah, it's a feature, and it would need some changes in shim, grub2, and > even yast. And installation-media, of course ;). FWIW installation step is quite easy: grub from grub2-i386-efi works just fine, it can load already present grub.cfg just fine (I tested this on a mixed-mode machine some time ago). So it only needs to be placed on the media (as bootia32.efi). Then yast needs to install grub2-i386-efi if it detects mixed-mode during the installation. That can be done by reading /sys/firmware/efi/fw_platform_size. I haven't tested secure boot, we do not provide shim32 for x86_64, AFAIK. I'll note that I have been experimenting with this since 2018. My experiments are in a KVM virtual machine with ovmf firmware. I described some of my attempts here: https://nwrickert2.wordpress.com/2018/11/28/opensuse-leap-15-0-and-32-bit-efi/ I currently have both Tumbleweed and Leap 15.2 running this way. If you want help for installing, then open a new topic at forums.opensuse.org and I will assist. My current install method would easier than in that earlier blog post, but does require some linux command line steps. With regard to possibly providing install support, I can probably help there too with testing and with perhaps using my experience. With current install media, my method would be: 1: Use the DVD installer, and copy that to a USB flash drive; 2: Create a new larger EFI partition on that flash drive, and change the original partition type to FAT16 (so that there is only 1 EFI partition). 3: Copy the original EFI partition to the new one (file/directory tree copy, not binary copy. This is so that 64-bit EFI installs can still be done. 4: Modify that EFI partition by installing support for grub2-i386-efi booting. Obviously that's missing detail. After those changes, you can install. But to boot the newly installed system, you would need to install grub2-i386-efi, and manually run grub2-install to set it up. I'm using Opensuse in a Baytrail z3735f (64 bit) laptop with a 32 bit uefi since 5 months approx . I did the installation by accessing the installation media through Ubuntu grub command line (by manually grubconf to grub.cfg of opensuse installtion media ). yh so , Ubuntu and grub was already present in my system and i just installed opensuse through Ubuntu's Grub . The installation media was created using dd (Etcher works fine) . HERE , You don't have to copy bootia32.efi to installation media as the booting is done by Ubuntu's already installed 32 bit Grub . During installation use the existing /boot partition to install opensuse and don't create a new one !!!!! *** Bug 1177937 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** I wonder what the current status is. Has there been any development since back then? As stated in comments 6 and 7 there are ways to make it work. The good news is that Leap 15.4 Alpha runs very well on 32-bit UEFI. The bad news is that there is still no installer support (for Leap or for Tumbleweed). Ok, thanks for the feedback. Let me reassign to Basesystem component then, so that the remaining pieces can be solved. (In reply to Miroslav Beneš from comment #11) > Ok, thanks for the feedback. Let me reassign to Basesystem component then, > so that the remaining pieces can be solved. Note this is a META bug. installation-images are handled in bug 1178338. Bulk-re-assigning to the new bootloader-maintainers@suse.de group. |