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raymerjacque

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## Re: Building UEFI ISO with refracta on Testing.

Sat Feb 28, 2015 11:41 am

i am not using the refracta installer, only the snapshot. I am using the LMDE installer, same ones that solydx and sparky and mint is using, it actually works well with refractasnapshot with some minor tweaks. However after updating to latest snapshot version, the installer now hangs after file copying is completed...
So then i restarted installer, but this time via terminal so i can view whats going on in background, and this time where it hangs it popped up a window asking if i want to keep my default grub settings or use new ones ...
That popup. That is causing problems with the LMDE installer, unless you run installer via terminal the popup doesnt show, installer just hangs... so i was asking if I can disable whatever it does in snapshot where it requires user input about replacing grub config files.
fsmithred

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## Re: Building UEFI ISO with refracta on Testing.

Sat Feb 28, 2015 12:45 pm

It sounds like the popup is coming from the LMDE installer. Nothing I've written asks if you want to keep or change your grub config files. Snapshot does nothing with grub.
raymerjacque

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## Re: Building UEFI ISO with refracta on Testing.

Sat Feb 28, 2015 12:47 pm

hmmm, well it doesn't happen on snapshot 9.14, only when i update snapshot to new debs does it do it.
Ill investigate some more
on the plus side, the new debs build a perfect ISO with working UEFI, i dont have to edit ISO afterwards.
fsmithred

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## Re: Building UEFI ISO with refracta on Testing.

Sat Feb 28, 2015 6:48 pm

If it only happens with snapshots made with the beta, then maybe lmde installer is seeing the /boot/grub directory on the iso and asking what to do with it.
miraculix

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## Re: Building UEFI ISO with refracta on Testing.

Sat Mar 21, 2015 5:13 pm

If you don't need uefi, you can change this by editing the configuration of refractasnapshot and setting "uefi-ready" to "no". In that case you will get an iso without the /boot/grub directory but IMO not ready to be installed on uefi-firmware.
The refractainstallers in the oven are going to the cutting edge to allow the installation of multiple distros in multiboot manner out of the box now.
fsmithred

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## Re: Building UEFI ISO with refracta on Testing.

Tue Mar 24, 2015 1:52 pm

I'm trying the installer now in virtualbox. Partitioning is a bit confusing (starting with a blank virtual disk.) Got caught in a loop selecting the disk to be partitioned until I figured out that I needed to exit and run cgdisk first. The next confusing part was giving the partition sizes in sectors. Had to do some math. Then when I ran the installer again, it wanted to run cgdisk (and it did run it). I exited cgdisk and got caught in another loop selecting the disk and getting thrown into cgdisk until I clicked "Done" without selecting the disk. It seems to be running fine now, still copying the system to the hard disk. Will update later.
Edit/Update: Installation completed normally. System boots to uefi shell. Can't bypass that with ESC key. Can't boot in bios mode (no bootable medium found).
In uefi shell, if I go to BLK0:, BLK1:, or BLK2: and issue the 'cd' command (show or change directory), it shows me nothing, and I can't cd to the efi directory. (it doesn't exist)
fsmithred

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## Re: Building UEFI ISO with refracta on Testing.

Tue Mar 24, 2015 3:47 pm

I booted the iso again, and this is what I get when I run 'gdisk -l /dev/sda'

Code:
  `GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 0.8.5
  Partition table scan:
  MBR: protective
  BSD: not present
  APM: not present
  GPT: present
  Found valid GPT with protective MBR; using GPT.
  Disk /dev/sda: 16777216 sectors, 8.0 GiB
  Logical sector size: 512 bytes
  Disk identifier (GUID): 27B002B9-3140-4284-AB8E-33290BE177C8
  Partition table holds up to 128 entries
  First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 16777182
  Partitions will be aligned on 2048-sector boundaries
  Total free space is 2014 sectors (1007.0 KiB)
  Number Start (sector) End (sector) Size Code Name
  1 2048 526335 256.0 MiB EF00 efi
  2 526336 16777182 7.7 GiB 8300 rootfs
  `

I can't mount the first partition to look at it. Need to specify the filesystem, and vfat doesn't work. Second partition has the root filesystem, as it should.
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