Thanks for your comments, they've helped. On Mon, Jan 07, 2013 at 02:20:23AM +1100, Trent W. Buck wrote:
There are "daily" and periodic "testing" builds of d-i that may work better than the stable build. (IME usually not, though :-)
yeah, I used a recent daily build of the wheezy installer, and the grub-efi-amd64 packages recently (Dec 29 IIRC) got post-install scripts to automatically add debian to the EFI boot table.
(apparently there is an alpha-quality syslinux 6.x series which will be efi)
Likewise on #syslinux (Freenode, IIRC) I've found hpa et al to be patient and helpful, they may know of some workaround that I don't.
i've tried downloading and compiling syslinux-6.00-pre3 (and have some shiny new ELF versions of menu.c32, chain.c32 and so on - the switch to ELF rather than COM32 or COM32R in syslinux seems like a very good idea), but pxelinux is one of the things that doesn't have EFI support yet.
I could have disabled UEFI entirely and had far less problems [...]
This is the approach I have been taking.
looks like i don't even have that as an option...I assumed it would be possible but I can't find anything in the BIOS that even sounds like it might I did find out why the USB boot options disappeared - I had disabled "Legacy USB Support" figuring that I don't want legacy USB boot, I wanted UEFI USB boot. But that disables *both*. which makes perfect sense (with sufficient ketamine)
http://www.cyber.com.au/~twb/snarf/extlinux-gpt.page (not needed if you use grub, as d-i sets up grub correctly under BIOS/GPT)
i've actually got the notebook to the point where it will boot grub, but grub fails to boot a kernel. says something about "couldn't terminate EFI services". I suspect it's because the grub installed on the machine was installed in BIOS mode rather than UEFI so isn't properly installed. craig -- craig sanders <cas@taz.net.au>