Debugging Fedora UEFI boot problems on Intel DQ77MK

[Peter Jones]

On 07/26/2012 02:36 PM, Przemek Klosowski wrote:
> On 07/26/2012 06:32 AM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
>
>> I have a new Intel DQ77MK motherboard, based on the Intel Q77 chipset.
>> CPU is Intel Ivy Bridge i7-3770.
>> I'm running the latest BIOS version (0048), and UEFI boot is enabled in the BIOS.
>
> I take it that this one doesn't have the secure boot yet? The secure UEFI boot
> is almost certainly not the cause here---AFAIK there aren't any publicly
> available secure UEFI implementations yet, and your board seemed to execute the
> bootloader just fine and got bogged down during the kernel startup.
>
> If secure boot was the issue, it would fail to boot because the bootloader is
> not yet signed. BTW, is the behavior in such case prescribed by the secure UEFI
> spec? Can the system lock up black or does it have to print a message and return
> to UEFI prompt?

There's no mandated UI, no. In this case grub would fail to run, so we can be
sure that's not what's going on.

-- 
         Peter