Debugging Fedora UEFI boot problems on Intel DQ77MK

[Pasi Kärkkäinen]

On Thu, Aug 09, 2012 at 09:05:26PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 08:33:04PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 10:27:54PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> > 
> > > .. and it's stuck there. I need to press Reset button to continue.
> > > It did read the CD for a while until it got frozen.
> > 
> > Yeah, that's definitely a bug then. We'll see if we can reproduce it.
> > 
> 
> Any luck reproducing? Anything else I should try? 
> 

Ok, this issue is now resolved. It was an Intel BIOS/firmware bug.

DQ77MK BIOS v0050 has this in the changelog/releasenotes:
"Fixed issue with UEFI Linux* installation."

And indeed, with BIOS 0050 I can now successfully UEFI boot both Fedora 17 and RHEL 6.3.

Thanks a lot to everyone involved!

-- Pasi