Debugging Fedora UEFI boot problems on Intel DQ77MK

[Gerry Reno]

On 07/26/2012 04:31 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 02:44:24PM -0400, Gerry Reno wrote:
>> There are missing Ivy Bridge definitions in the intel_chipset.h file in libdrm which causes machines with Ivy Bridge
>> CPU's w/embedded iGPU to fail when starting X.
>>
>> As I said in the bug, installing libdrm 2.4.37 from bodhi fixed the issue on my F17 machine.
>>
> bz#840180 is a probably a different issue.
>
> My problem is that I can't even boot the f16/f17/rhel63 installer dvds
> because the UEFI boot doesn't work (it gets stuck with a blank screen),
> so I'm not able to install OS in UEFI mode..
>
> Installing the same distros using legacy BIOS boot works OK.
>
> -- Pasi
>
>>
>> On 07/26/2012 02:05 PM, Gerry Reno wrote:
>>> I encountered a similar problem when using a new Intel Xeon (Ivy Bridge) CPU.
>>>
>>> The issue occurred with Ivy Bridge w/iGPU onboard.
>>>
>>> Ref:  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=840180
>>>
>>> .
>>
>>


Maybe UEFI is looking for a boot file and not finding it on DVD.