Debugging Fedora UEFI boot problems on Intel DQ77MK

[Peter Jones]

On 07/26/2012 06:32 AM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> UEFI boot fails with all of the listed operating systems. Symptoms:
>
> - I get the Fedora/RHEL EFI boot menu, and I let it boot with the default
> options.
> - I get text on the screen about allocating memory pages for Linux-EFI,
> loading VMLINUZ, etc.
> - The screen goes empty/black, there's only a cursor blinking, and nothing
> happens..
> - The boot failed or is stuck with nothing happening. I need to reset the
> box.
>
> It looks like Linux kernel doesn't get  started at all.. so it could be a UEFI
> firmware or a bootloader problem.
>
> I'm actually expecting this is an Intel BIOS/UEFI firmware bug, because I've
> seen reports about UEFI boot problems on other Intel 7-series chipset
> as well.
>
> Does anyone know how to debug/troubleshoot UEFI boot problems?

The fact that the cursor is blinking is a bit strange; if grub has attempted
to boot the kernel, that's unexpected.  Nevertheless, one thing to try is
to add "noefi" to the kernel command line.  If it gets farther, that's an
indication that we're hitting a kernel bug.

-- 
         Peter