Hello everyone,
i have hard time to setup debian on an XMG P505. After some emails with Schenker/XMG linux support i was told to ask at this thread, even in english - they stated that the users where awesome over here.
Anyway...The XMG P505 arrived with Win 8.1 preinstalled. I repartitioned the disk to make room for my linux (debian wheezy) install, and used
https://rufus.akeo.ie/ on Windows to create an USB UEFI bootable drive with
http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/7.8.0/amd64/iso-cd/debian-7.8.0-amd64-netinst.isoMy idea is...
0. secure-boot off
1. install debian without any bootloader, chroot into it using "rescue mode" form the install disk
2. use efilinux, copying it to the EFI partition (/dev/sda2 on my box) to /EFI/Efilinux/efilinux.efi (i could not compile gummiboot from source on the debian wheezy)
3. add the boot entry to the NVRAM (using efibootmgr)
4. boot up using this entry from the main-boards firmware
(5. install Linux Foundations loader.efi)
(6. secure-boot on)
(7. profit)
Now, i did it until step 3, but the firmware bootloader refuses to boot the installed efi...
Next idea was, to use an efi shell to load the efilinux manually, to debug any configuration issues..
1. get shell.efi (downloaded
https://svn.code.sf.net/p/edk2/code/trunk/edk2/ShellBinPkg/UefiShell/X64/Shell.efi)
2. copy shell.efi to /boot/efi/Shellx64.efi (tried /boot/efi/EFI/Shellx64.efi as well)
3. reboot into mobo firmware
4. select boot efi shell from detected hardware...
Step 4 without any luck. The only hint being the firmware saying "no". So i got suspicious...
Any way to debug/see errors ocurring during efi loading?
Any other suggestions (apart of trying grub-efi, i would like to keep it as simple as possible)?
Thank You!