Good day all,
I'm having a curious problem with a Fedora 18 installation on an HP Envy desktop (EFI system). (h8-1520t) (cpu i7-3770, mem 8GB). I apologize for this being rather long, but I want to provide any relevant info.
First, the USB installation media hangs after displaying "Binary is verified by the vendor certificate". So, I set:
a) Legacy support: ENABLE
b) Secure boot: DISABLE
On reboot the installation (from USB drive) displays "Secure boot not enabled" (as expected) but it works except for the graphics being displayed to the right of center. That is fixed with adding "nomodeset" to the boot options, or (strangely enough) by booting with "Verify and boot" with no options.
In any event, I get the installation to go smoothly. However, there are two extremely annoying issues after booting with the Grub2 bootloader.
1) If I boot with tle Live USB stick, then reboot (unplug the USB drive) and boot from the HD installation everything works perfectly (even the graphics) HOWEVER, if I reboot (even with a power down) after first booting from the HD installation, it hangs with the message "Loading initial ramdisk..." In other words, I cannot boot from the HD without first booting from the USB drive. This is reproducible.
2) If I boot to Windows 8 (chainloader) (on /dev/sda4) I get "Error file '/efi/ferdora//x86_64-efi/ntfs.mod' not found. Invalid file path" I'm not too concerned about this, it's probably a bad path or missing file.
Note: I have the USB drive listed 1st in the boot order, Fedora listed 2nd and Windows boot manager listed last. If I put the Windows Boot mgr 1st, Windows 8 boots fine.
I've tried this with secure boot enabled and disabled. At some point I want to get secure boot working but right now I just want to be able to dual boot reliably (and conveniently :)
I'm familiar with Linux (Fedora) and Grub, but I am new to UEFI and Grub2 so I don't know what to try or check for now. Any help would be appreciated. As I side note, I'm sending this from the new Fedora 18 installation on the HP
I'm having a curious problem with a Fedora 18 installation on an HP Envy desktop (EFI system). (h8-1520t) (cpu i7-3770, mem 8GB). I apologize for this being rather long, but I want to provide any relevant info.
First, the USB installation media hangs after displaying "Binary is verified by the vendor certificate". So, I set:
a) Legacy support: ENABLE
b) Secure boot: DISABLE
On reboot the installation (from USB drive) displays "Secure boot not enabled" (as expected) but it works except for the graphics being displayed to the right of center. That is fixed with adding "nomodeset" to the boot options, or (strangely enough) by booting with "Verify and boot" with no options.
In any event, I get the installation to go smoothly. However, there are two extremely annoying issues after booting with the Grub2 bootloader.
1) If I boot with tle Live USB stick, then reboot (unplug the USB drive) and boot from the HD installation everything works perfectly (even the graphics) HOWEVER, if I reboot (even with a power down) after first booting from the HD installation, it hangs with the message "Loading initial ramdisk..." In other words, I cannot boot from the HD without first booting from the USB drive. This is reproducible.
2) If I boot to Windows 8 (chainloader) (on /dev/sda4) I get "Error file '/efi/ferdora//x86_64-efi/ntfs.mod' not found. Invalid file path" I'm not too concerned about this, it's probably a bad path or missing file.
Note: I have the USB drive listed 1st in the boot order, Fedora listed 2nd and Windows boot manager listed last. If I put the Windows Boot mgr 1st, Windows 8 boots fine.
I've tried this with secure boot enabled and disabled. At some point I want to get secure boot working but right now I just want to be able to dual boot reliably (and conveniently :)
I'm familiar with Linux (Fedora) and Grub, but I am new to UEFI and Grub2 so I don't know what to try or check for now. Any help would be appreciated. As I side note, I'm sending this from the new Fedora 18 installation on the HP