Bugzilla – Bug 116739
No data written to /boot/efi?
Last modified: 2005-10-26 07:32:22 UTC
I choosed a "/" and an extra "/boot/efi" partition. After reboot I recognized that there was not data written to "/boot/efi". -> Booting failed
Holgi, would you mind attaching '/etc/elilo.conf' (and maybe the usual YaST log-files)? Jiri, would it be possible, that only 'efibootmgr' is called by the new bootloader-code? (Provided the conf-file is OK, this looks like '/sbin/elilo' isn't run at all...)
Later today I'll try this myself, but I would appreciate, if you could speed up things in providing what you have, Holgi. (This is assuming, that Jiri has time to fix it... ;)
Created attachment 49911 [details] elilo.conf
Created attachment 49912 [details] YaST2.tgz
OK, needed info is now attached
Created attachment 49914 [details] YaST2.tgz
Same on my test machine. Will attach logs etc. tomorrow.
Well, at least the necessary directory 'efi/SuSE' in '/boot/efi' is *not* created! Therefore the current version of '/sbin/elilo' fails to detect the where to place the files...
As SLES8 was installed previously on my machine (and YaST2 crashed when I tried to create a new fat partition) I already had and still have an untouched boot partition: fs0:\> ls efi Directory of: fs0:\efi 06/06/05 02:11p <DIR> 512 . 06/06/05 02:11p <DIR> 0 .. 06/06/05 02:40p <DIR> 512 SuSE 0 File(s) 0 bytes 3 Dir(s) fs0:\> ls efi\SuSE Directory of: fs0:\efi\SuSE 06/06/05 02:11p <DIR> 512 . 06/06/05 02:11p <DIR> 512 .. 10/31/03 02:17a 326,144 elilo.efi 06/06/05 02:28p 329 elilo.conf 2 File(s) 326,473 bytes 2 Dir(s) fs0:\> I will attach installation logs and hwinfo from my machine in a second.
Created attachment 49985 [details] dcon's YaST2 logs
Created attachment 49986 [details] dcon's hwinfo
Update: I chroot'ed into the installed system and let YaST2's bootlader module propose a new configuration and install it. The system boots nowm so it's not a generic YaST2 problem.
Jiri, what's the status of this?
FWIW, this sequence of commands chroot /mnt mount /boot/efi mkdir -p /boot/efi/efi/SuSE /sbin/elilo umount /boot/efi exit with "stopped" reboot-countdown fixed it for me. Actually I've made that directory during package installation hoping, that 'elilo' would eventually be called and thus allow an easy work-around. Unfortunately it's not!