Debugging Fedora UEFI boot problems on Intel DQ77MK

Gerry Reno greno at verizon.net
Mon Jul 30 15:21:54 UTC 2012


On 07/30/2012 10:58 AM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 05:35:20PM -0400, Gerry Reno wrote:
>> On 07/26/2012 05:12 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote:
>>> On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 08:59:20PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
>>>
>>>> When booting Fedora 17 x64 there's the GRUB bootloader with graphical background image, 
>>>> I let it boot the default entry "Fedora 17", I see it the allocating memory pages, loading VMLINUZ etc, 
>>>> and then the display mode / resolution changes, and then there's just blank screen and a cursor blinking.. 
>>> If you see a resoution change then try booting with nomodeset.
>>>
>> You might also see if you can get one of the alternate terminals.  If that works then the kernel is booted and its just
>> X which is not starting.
>>
> I can't change terminals. I assume the kernel doesn't boot at all, or crashes very early.
> I can't see any kind of activity from Linux kernel after GRUB-efi messages and the screen switches to blank..
>
> -- Pasi
>

Have you tried booting with more logging?  Without "quiet" param?

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