[SOLVED] Only able to boot off usb after install of current

thirtySeven · 06-21-2020, 08:19 PM

I installed current but am unable to boot off my nvme disk. The boot fails instantly. I can successfully boot off of the usb that was made during the install. I have an efi partition mounted at /boot/efi. I installed only lilo.

Didier Spaier · 06-22-2020, 04:50 AM

[wrong answer, removed]

alekow · 06-22-2020, 05:20 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by thirtySeven

I have an efi partition mounted at /boot/efi. I installed only lilo.

On uefi system you need to install elilo not lilo.

colorpurple21859 · 06-22-2020, 05:30 AM

as root run eliloconfig

thirtySeven · 06-22-2020, 07:16 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by colorpurple21859

as root run eliloconfig

I am able to successfully install elilo and create a boot menu entry. I am able to see that the boot entry exists with efibootmgr. When I restart my computer though, the entry does not show up as an option in the boot menu.

colorpurple21859 · 06-22-2020, 07:51 AM

on some systems you have to go into the bios to change the boot order to elilo

thirtySeven · 06-22-2020, 09:47 AM

@colorpurple21859

it doesn't appear in my bios either. When I boot back into my system off my usb and check efibootmgr, I see that the entry that was installed is now gone. I have tried multiple times and gotten the same result.

colorpurple21859 · 06-22-2020, 09:54 AM

boot into your system from the usb and post the output of
cat /sys/firmware/efi

thirtySeven · 06-22-2020, 10:15 AM

@colorpurple21859

cat: /sys/firmware/efi: Is a directory

colorpurple21859 · 06-22-2020, 12:31 PM

Do you have more than one drive and/or efi partition?
Does

Code:

gdisk /dev/nvme0

throw any warnings? change /dev/??? according to your system
Post your hardware specs, maybe someone with a similar system can help.

igadoter · 06-22-2020, 01:06 PM

Give us some information: hardware, partition table, boot menu options. The simple solution is reinstall only basic system - it should be fast. If this again will fail - then maybe you can't boot. I mean some kind of OEM lock.

gouttegd · 06-22-2020, 02:06 PM

For what it’s worth, I’ve already seen a machine (the one I’m using right now) on which ELILO was unable to boot, even though the symptoms were different from what is reported here (in my case I could see the ELILO menu and select an entry, but then the machine would remain stuck when it should be loading the kernel).

I have no idea what caused ELILO to fail, but on the same machine GRUB had no issues at all.

thirtySeven · 06-22-2020, 03:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by igadoter

Give us some information: hardware, partition table, boot menu options. The simple solution is reinstall only basic system - it should be fast. If this again will fail - then maybe you can't boot. I mean some kind of OEM lock.

I have a new system 76 Darter Pro:https://system76.com/laptops/darter.

Code:

gdisk /dev/nvm0

returns

Code:

GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 1.0.5

The specified path is a character device

My boot menu only has two entries being the usb and

Quote:

NVMe: Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus 500GB S58SNJ0N317189L 1 PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x1d,0x4)/Pci(0x0,0x0)/NVMe(0x1,00-25-38-53-01-41-E2-AF)

My disk has 3 partitions being the partition mounted at /boot/efi, the root directory is mounted on second partition, and I have a swap partition.

quickbreakfast · 06-22-2020, 03:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by thirtySeven

I installed current but ...... The boot fails instantly. I can successfully boot off of the usb that was made during the install.

Though I am running stable I had much the same problem a few months ago and, eventually, found that the root partition did not have the boot flag.

So I suggest you open parted and ensure the boot flag is where it should be.

By the way welcome to Slackware and, perhaps a bit late, this forum.

Didier Spaier · 06-22-2020, 03:40 PM

System76 ships the machine with an OS they call pop!_OS which is obviously a slightly customized Ubuntu 20.04 aka Focal (without mentioning that anywhere so consumers may believe this is an OS written from scratch by System76 - not very fair IMO, even less so as in this webpage is a prominent SUPPORT POP button. But maybe they give back to Ubuntu or Debian part of the money they get this way?), using grub so I'd just try grub instead of elilo.