Dear Friends,
I am very, very, VERY satisfied user of your Alpine Linux. Because I am a
pretty Old-School linux user,
so I have for my distro such specific demads:
- Text only distro (without gui)
- Not live, but installable distribution image
- Not systemd utilization (openRC is completely nice alternative for me)
- Small size (if possible ideal up to max. 1GB)
These all of them is Alpine Linux greatly satisfiing and I must say big
THANKS TO YOU! for your great work.
All of you are bringing true spirit of computing to my life and work,
because graphical machines are not my cup of tea
and for my kind of computing I do not need Windows nor Big Linux distro…
Unfortunately with new set of my hardware came devices, whose have UEFI only
firmware (without CMS module) and I
have serious troubles to install Alpine Linux on them. As hardware
producers are switching to UEFI class 3 and dropping legacy BIOS interface
(CMS), incidence of problems is growing. Please, if you have such idea, help
me in my troubles.
What is the object of trouble:
Installation of Alpine Linux Extended Image version 3.11.3 on computer,
which is UEFI only capable.
What happened:
ISO with Alpine Linux (extended) 3.11.3 booted properly and I got first
start root prompt (as many times before)
I have done usual mantra, so export BOOTLOADER=grub then setup-alpine, walk
through questions as usual and
installation has begun. During installation nothing wrong (visualy)
happened, no extra error messages etc… BUT,
after rebooting and removing installation media system want not to boot and
in UEFI boot order list is not present any record leading to Alpine Linux.
What I have checked:
- Double checked if SecureBoot is OFF, it was first idea, which I had, but
SecureBoot was really OFF
- Boot again from CD and mount partitions from harddrive (EFI, SYS and SWAP)
partitions were present, in EFI partition
existing alpine and boot subfolders with appropriate bootx64.efi and grubx
64.efi files were existing and look without
problem.
- The same installation CD I tried on another UEFI only computer and it work
without trouble
- I have tried on device, with which I have troubles another distro (ubuntu)
and it worked perfectly, but UBUNTU is not
the right one, I want to use...
- I have not possibility from UEFI setup environment find and assign boot
file to boot menu... This version is lack of this option.
- I walked through your FAQ and WIKI and (maybe wrong searching), but did
not find any info, which will give me a chance
to try something another.
- I am afraid, that it is something wrong with writing values to the
EFIVARS, but I am not so much familiar with them in
ALPINE, because up to this time everything gone seamless. Please have you
such trick and/or advice how to deal with this trouble? I really want not to
give up with Alpine Linux on that maschine.
Thank you a lot in advance for your time and answer.
Your big fan from Czech Republic
Jiri Ullmann
--
Ing. Jiří Ullmann
jullmann@post.cz
+420-607-542442
*** ISYS / Alpine Linux 3.11.3 ***
On 2020-02-10 16:14:12, Ing. Jiri Ullmann wrote:
> after rebooting and removing installation media system want not to boot and
> in UEFI boot order list is not present any record leading to Alpine Linux.
Did you try to run "grub-install" yourself on the relevant devices?
(Check that the necessary boot partition and sys, proc, dev are mounted)
Cheers,
--
Marco Dickert
marco@misterunknown.de
https://misterunknown.de