Author: Jonathan Moebius Date: To: dng Subject: [DNG] EFI Installation of Beowulf?
Dear all,
I have switched to a new computer and tried to install Beowulf 3.1.0 in a
pure-EFI setting.
I have tried installing on a SATA SSD as well as a a m.2 PCIe SSD. Originally,
the plan was a dual boot install with Win10 being installed first, however
after several failed attempts, I scraped Win10 and went for a Linux-only
install.
Installation seems to run smoothly but after reboot grub presents itself
without the "graphical" selection menu but instead delivers the line
"Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported..."
After 5 hours of installing and re-installing I tried installing Debian Buster
10.8 (I understand, Beowulf 3.1.0 is based on 10.8). With debian the
installation works out of the box.
I have found following hints regarding this:
EFI Partition may be missing or too small
I tried both with guided partitioning and manual partitioning, I created EFI
partitions up to 1 gb without success.
Grub may have to be re-installed.
I tried to chroot into the installation and did a grub-install (after mounting
the efi-partition). This did not solve the issue
Grub.cfg may be missing
I compared the grub.cfg from Debian and Devuan. Superficially they look very
similar.
Do you have any hints what else to try? Can you spare me going back to debian?