Install Fedora 27 on HP Elitebook Folio 1040: Bootloop

[fedora]

Lately, I wanted to install Fedora 27 on the above HW. It uses UEFI 
instead of BIOS. Install, that means:
1. Download the Fedora Server Netinstall 
Fedora-Server-netinst-x86_64-27-1.6.iso and dd it to a micro SD card.
2. Create an approp ks file on the local Web http://install.lan.
3. Boot from the micro SD card and add the ks file link to the linux 
boot-line.
4. Let nature take its course
5. Reboot into runlevel 3
6. dnf -y update
7. dnf -y groupinstall “Xfce Desktop”
8  dnf -y install sddm
9. systemctl enable –force sddm

But when rebooting (setp 5) the laptop went into a boot loop. There was 
a message showing up for about half a second, which said:
System BootOrder not found. Initializing default.
Creating boot file BOOT0000 with Fedora on file abcdefghik.
Reset System.

Fortunately there is a Boot-Option “Boot from EFI file”, which let me 
select the grubx64.efi file as boot file. Using this, the laptop booted 
correctly.

Using efibootmgr (efibootmgr -o 0,1,2)I could not set the BootOrder, 
i.e. I could set it, but it was lost across the BootProcess. The only 
thing, which was  saved across the BootProcess was the BootNext option 
(set with efibootmgr -n 3).

To automate the BootProcess I did the following:

su -
cd /boot/efi/EFI
cp fedora/grubx64.efi BOOT
efibootmgr -b 0 -l EFI/BOOT/grubx64.efi

because: apparently the laptop booted from BOOT0000. The above sequence 
made it take the file grubx64.efi from BOOT0000 and boot into fedora.

That was, however, not the end of the troubles: After fedora had booted 
and the sddm DisplayManager showed up, I could not enter the password, 
because the keyboard was irresponsive. But this is another story, which 
I solved by installing Centos 7 on the laptop.

suomi

[Richard Shaw]

Is SecureBoot enabled?

With my wife's new HP Core-i5 8250U I used the F27 live install method from
a USB stick and everything "just worked". I inherited her old Acer i5-6200U
and it was quite a bit more work.

I had to disable SecureBoot in order for it to boot from the USB stick (but
left it in UEFI because if you don't the installer will not setup /boot for
UFEI). Everything installed fine including resizing my Win10 main partition
to make room.

Afterwards I spent about an hour trying to get it to boot the right way
instead of skipping over Fedora and booting Windows 10. With this
particular laptop you have to go into the BIOS and tell it which EFI file
is trusted, and I chose grubx64.efi as you did and then you can give it a
name.

Then I had to change the boot order to put it in front of the "Microsoft
Boot Loader". After that it works just fine.

HTH,
Richard

[fedora]

On 11/28/2017 04:37 PM, Richard Shaw wrote:
> Is SecureBoot enabled?
>
> With my wife's new HP Core-i5 8250U I used the F27 live install method 
> from a USB stick and everything "just worked". I inherited her old Acer 
> i5-6200U and it was quite a bit more work.
>
> I had to disable SecureBoot in order for it to boot from the USB stick 
> (but left it in UEFI because if you don't the installer will not setup 
> /boot for UFEI). Everything installed fine including resizing my Win10 
> main partition to make room.
>
> Afterwards I spent about an hour trying to get it to boot the right way 
> instead of skipping over Fedora and booting Windows 10. With this 
> particular laptop you have to go into the BIOS and tell it which EFI 
> file is trusted, and I chose grubx64.efi as you did and then you can 
> give it a name.
>
> Then I had to change the boot order to put it in front of the "Microsoft 
> Boot Loader". After that it works just fine.
>
> HTH,
> Richard
>
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Hi Richard

thanks for replying.
no, SecureBoot is disabled, that was the first item I checked...

suomi