Re: EFI3M, the EFI Multi-boot Menu Maker
Posted: 19. Jun 2018, 23:06
I have found a culprit, booting on bare metal off the USB key written under Salix in a VM.
The culprit is the grub-mkimage binary shipped in grub-2.0 in Salix-Xfce-14.2.
It builds a file BOOTx64EFI that leads to this message from elilo that I can see on my laptop (I edited the path and the UUID in grub.conf in the USB stick to be those of elilo that starts Slint):
Of course elilo doesn't boot, it just endlessly dots to the last line.
However, if I just replace /mnt/EFI/BOOT/BOOTx64.EFI by /boot/efi/EFI/BOOT/BOOTx64.EFI built with grub-mkimage from grub-2.02 (that I will ship in next Slint ISO), booting occurs with no issue and Slint starts!
I can't provide any explanation of the interference of the grub version with the behavior of elilo (using the same grub.cfg and the same elilo.conf) but there is one.
It's too late here to continue testing now, but tomorrow I will upgrade grub in Salix in the VM and see if I can confirm this.
Best,
Didier
The culprit is the grub-mkimage binary shipped in grub-2.0 in Salix-Xfce-14.2.
It builds a file BOOTx64EFI that leads to this message from elilo that I can see on my laptop (I edited the path and the UUID in grub.conf in the USB stick to be those of elilo that starts Slint):
Code: Select all
fileops.c(line 525):No devnames scheme worked, using builtin.
forcing interactive mode due to config file error(s)
ELILO boot: ......................
However, if I just replace /mnt/EFI/BOOT/BOOTx64.EFI by /boot/efi/EFI/BOOT/BOOTx64.EFI built with grub-mkimage from grub-2.02 (that I will ship in next Slint ISO), booting occurs with no issue and Slint starts!
I can't provide any explanation of the interference of the grub version with the behavior of elilo (using the same grub.cfg and the same elilo.conf) but there is one.
It's too late here to continue testing now, but tomorrow I will upgrade grub in Salix in the VM and see if I can confirm this.
Best,
Didier