Bug 23300

Summary:	MGA6: boot UEFI crashed after installation
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	pierre fernandes <pierre.fernandes>
Component:	Installer	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	marja11
Version:	6	Keywords:	NEEDINFO
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:		CVE:
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Description pierre fernandes 2018-07-13 16:22:17 CEST

Description of problem:


 I started the mageia 6 installation by selecting the UEFI-DVD drive.
On a blank disk I chose automatic partitioning on a 500Mb disk:
Creating an / boot / EFI (DOS system)
Creating a root / (50gb) (ext4)
creating a 4gb swap
The rest in / home (ext4)
As I said, in automatic.
At reboot, impossible: can not find / boot / EFI

 So I tried the installation by selecting the AHCI-DVD player
On the disk  I deleted the old installation with / boot / EFI to have a blank disk I chose the automatic partitioning, which gave:
Creating a root / (50gb) (ext4)
creating a 4gb swap
The rest in / home (ext4)
And everything works normally.
 My "bios" is an AXTU ASRock UEFI
 
 I admit I do not see the connection between the boot of the DVD in UEFI or in AHCI except that the installation will unfold differently.
 I looked in the "type" possible for the boot, there is a boot / GPT
 Should I have imposed this choice after automatic partitioning?
 Thank you

Comment 1 Marja Van Waes 2018-07-15 17:20:28 CEST

At first sight, it looks like you have a dos partitioned disk instead of a GPT partitioned disk. Even if you have an UEFI "bios", UEFI mode won't work if the disk isn't GPT 
https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Installing_on_systems_with_UEFI_firmware



Can you please go to a terminal/konsole, become _root_ and do:

    fdisk -l > fdisk.txt

and then attach fdisk.txt to this bug report?

The output will either prove I'm wrong, or that I'm right ;-)

Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFO
CC: (none) => marja11

Comment 2 pierre fernandes 2018-07-18 14:29:19 CEST

(In reply to Marja Van Waes from comment #1)
> At first sight, it looks like you have a dos partitioned disk instead of a
> GPT partitioned disk. Even if you have an UEFI "bios", UEFI mode won't work
> if the disk isn't GPT 
> https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Installing_on_systems_with_UEFI_firmware
> 
> 
> 
> Can you please go to a terminal/konsole, become _root_ and do:
> 
>     fdisk -l > fdisk.txt
> 
> and then attach fdisk.txt to this bug report?
> 
> The output will either prove I'm wrong, or that I'm right ;-)


Yes,Actually the disks are partitioned in DOS mode: fdisk.txt

Disque /dev/sda : 465,8 GiB, 500107862016 octets, 976773168 secteurs
Unités : secteur de 1 × 512 = 512 octets
Taille de secteur (logique / physique) : 512 octets / 512 octets
taille d'E/S (minimale / optimale) : 512 octets / 512 octets
Type d'étiquette de disque : dos
Identifiant de disque : 0xd05e5dcb

Device     Boot     Start       End   Sectors   Size Id Type
/dev/sda1  *         2048 307194929 307192882 146,5G 83 Linux
/dev/sda2       307195904 409593239 102397336  48,8G 83 Linux
/dev/sda3       409593856 417770324   8176469   3,9G 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda4       417771520 976751999 558980480 266,6G 83 Linux

Disque /dev/sdb : 372,6 GiB, 400088457216 octets, 781422768 secteurs
Unités : secteur de 1 × 512 = 512 octets
Taille de secteur (logique / physique) : 512 octets / 512 octets
taille d'E/S (minimale / optimale) : 512 octets / 512 octets
Type d'étiquette de disque : dos
Identifiant de disque : 0x5b418d2e

Device     Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/sdb1  *        0   0       0   0B  0 Empty
/dev/sdb2  *        0   0       0   0B  0 Empty
/dev/sdb3  *        0   0       0   0B  0 Empty
/dev/sdb4  *        0   0       0   0B  0 Empty

Disque /dev/sdc : 189,9 GiB, 203928109056 octets, 398297088 secteurs
Unités : secteur de 1 × 512 = 512 octets
Taille de secteur (logique / physique) : 512 octets / 512 octets
taille d'E/S (minimale / optimale) : 512 octets / 512 octets
Type d'étiquette de disque : dos
Identifiant de disque : 0xfd31652a

Device     Boot Start       End   Sectors   Size Id Type
/dev/sdc1  *     2048 398267414 398265367 189,9G  7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT

Thank you.

Comment 3 Marja Van Waes 2018-07-19 13:50:28 CEST

Thanks for the feedback, Pierre!

So this isn't a bug. (Don't worry, it is normal to sometimes file a bug report about something that isn't a bug, that has happened to many of us. The only sure way to avoid that is to never file a bug report, which, obviously, wouldn't be good.)

Closing.

Resolution: (none) => INVALID
Status: NEW => RESOLVED