Debugging Fedora UEFI boot problems on Intel DQ77MK

[Pasi Kärkkäinen]

On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 09:59:11AM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote:
> 
> On Jul 30, 2012, at 9:36 AM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
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> > Multiple people have confirmed UEFI boot is broken on Intel 7-series motherboards,
> > so I believe this is Intel BIOS/firmware bug.
> 
> Does it UEFI boot a Windows 7 X86_64 install disk?
> 

I just tried it, and yes, Win7 SP1 x64 seems to install and work in UEFI mode.
After win7 x64 installation I verified there is a GPT system partition on the hdd,
and also I used "bcdedit" to verify Windows has booted using bootmgfw.efi and winload.efi.

> Does Intel think it's broken?
> 

I opened a thread about it on Intel forums/communities,
where a person from Intel asked if "supported operating system" worked OK..

It seems RHEL is "supported", and RHEL 6.3 server x64 shows the same problem as Fedora,
so that's good in a way. I guess I need to figure out how to open a proper bugreport to Intel.

http://communities.intel.com/message/162124

so in short: Win7 x64 UEFI works, but fedora16/fedora17/rhel63 x64 fail in UEFI mode.

-- Pasi