Booting directly into Bios after installation

SlowMotion · n00b Joined: 26 May 2024 Posts: 36

Yesterday I bought new computer and tried to install. But after installation pc directly boots into bios.

So I dont have any information what went wrong.

For installation I attached external usb cdrom with current gentoo installation cd.

Is there an option to check if uefi has any problem from live system or from chroot ?

xgivolari · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 26 Jul 2021 Posts: 102

Sounds like a boot loader issue. When you press the boot option hotkey while booting, is there an entry for your boot loader? If yes, does selecting it work? If not, then there is probably an issue with GRUB.

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Mon May 27, 2024 9:10 am Post subject:

SlowMotion,

Welcome to Gentoo.

Are you EFI or Compatibility (BIOS) booting?
Several things can go wrong in setting up your BIOS.

Lets assume the BIOS is in EFI mode. Compatibility mode may well be broken.
Secureboot must be disabled. The BIOS checks the signature of the code that its about to load.
If its not Windows, that fails, so you go straight to BIOS.

With seceureboot disabled, the next step is to load whatever is pointed to by the efivars. if anything.
Boot some live media and run efibootmgr

SlowMotion · n00b Joined: 26 May 2024 Posts: 36

Sorry that I forgot to give more informations.

Yes I try to use EFI.
I already deacticvated secure boot, was also needed to boot by live cd of gentoo.

Calling efibootmgr brings

pietinger · Posted: Mon May 27, 2024 7:47 pm Post subject:

SlowMotion,

please check if you have done every step in this chapter (only this chapter; please do only checking; this article is meant for booting a manually configured kernel directly, but it should give you all requirements for grub to boot):
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:Pietinger/Tutorials/Boot_kernel_via_UEFI#Prerequisites_for_an_UEFI_boot
Do you know how to reach / chroot into your Gentoo installation ? If not, this will help you:
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:Pietinger/New_at_Gentoo#Pause_during_Installation
_________________
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:Pietinger

SlowMotion · n00b Joined: 26 May 2024 Posts: 36

I normally use fdisk but installed parted to be able to check the partition layout

pietinger · Posted: Mon May 27, 2024 10:26 pm Post subject:

SlowMotion,

maybe you miss some information/knowledge about a kernel, an initramfs and booting with or without a bootloader/bootmanager.

You must know that our distribution kernel has an associated initramfs. This must be loaded also ... either from a bootloader/bootmanager OR from UEFI. The whole configuration for this is done from installkernel.

So you have two ways to go:

1. Install according our AMD64 handbook the distribution kernel AND install (=emerge) also installkernel. Choose a bootloader/bootmanager and let them do all the automagic stuff.

2. Do a completely manually installation ... IF you know what you need.

I suggest to read some stuff in our wiki:

Start with: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/PC_Boot_Process
(initrd was the first solution and is outdated today; the successor is initramfs; some people say initrd when they actually mean initramfs)

Decide which initsystem you want (and tell us): OpenRC or systemd

Depending on this decision, I recommend different boot managers:
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:Pietinger/New_at_Gentoo
(of course you can use also systemd-boot for an OpenRC installation; and you can use grub for systemd; but it is not so easy to configure installkernel correctly: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Installkernel )

This is the easyiest way to install the kernel:
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:Pietinger/Draft/Quick_Installation_OpenRC_for_an_UEFI_System#Kernel
As said before: Our dist-kernel use an initramfs ... but you dont need to configure anything ... it is done completely automatically. So, with this you dont need: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Dracut

Later you can read also: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Distribution_Kernel

LATER - if you want - you can switch from your used bootmanager to an UEFI boot of your kernel, but it is not so easy.

Read before:
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Efivarfs
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Efibootmgr
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/EFI_stub
and especially the chapter:
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/EFI_stub#Optional:_Kernel_with_initramfs
(because our dist-kernel has/needs an initramfs)
Many things can go wrong ... this is a thread where I tried to help:
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-8805827.html#8805827

LATER - if you want - you can try to configure your kernel manually. I really suggest to start here:
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:Pietinger/Tutorials/Manual_kernel_configuration
_________________
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SlowMotion · n00b Joined: 26 May 2024 Posts: 36

I tried to do installation with the recommendations from the handbook.

* OpenRC
* Grub
* Distribution kernel

I installed in installkernel (thought I had installed before but seems it was missing)

I also unmerged the kernel I had installed (sys-kernel/gentoo-kernel) and installed the packages you recommended.

I followed the instructions of
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:Pietinger/Draft/Quick_Installation_OpenRC_for_an_UEFI_System#Kernel
but after rebooting same problem.

So I am confused which steps do I need to do manual and which should (normally) appear automatically when following the installation.

Additional to the manual added kernels (as you mentioned yesterday) in /efi/efi/backup and /efi/efi/secure (around 15 MB big)
now also in /efi/efi/gentoo a file grubx64.efi appeared (around 140 KB)

----

Does this "So, with this you dont need: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Dracut" mean I should unmerge that ?

According handbook it was mentioned (if I understand correct) to install dracut for distribution kernel

pietinger · Posted: Tue May 28, 2024 8:09 pm Post subject:

SlowMotion · n00b Joined: 26 May 2024 Posts: 36

PC

CPU : Intel i7-13700 (16x 1.5 - 5.2 GHz) Hexadeca-Core Processor

Mainboard : MSI B760M-P DDR4

Grafic : V PCI AMD Sapphire Pulse RX6600

efibootmgr in livecd

pietinger · Posted: Tue May 28, 2024 10:44 pm Post subject:

First of all: Sorry ... my bad ... :oops:

... I have meant "emerge --info" (stupid typo from me) ... okay ... but the real problem is:

There is no entry for grub in UEFI (grub.cfg is perfect correct). There exists some possible reasons:

1. You have CSM mode active in your UEFI(-"BIOS"). Some BIOS call it "legacy". Please check it. If it was enabled, please disable it and boot with our GentooLiveCD. Chroot into your system (dont forget to mount your ESP) and install grub again (+ config) ->

pietinger · Posted: Tue May 28, 2024 10:49 pm Post subject:

P.S.:

SlowMotion · n00b Joined: 26 May 2024 Posts: 36

(next steps via ssh)

Quote:

BootCurrent: 0001
Timeout: 0 seconds
BootOrder: 0001
Boot0001* UEFI: MATSHITADVD-RAM UJ892 SB01, Partition 1 PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x14,0x0)/USB(7,0)/CDROM(1,0x8d,0x1680)/HD(1,MBR,0x0,0x0,0x1680)0000424f

* ls /sys/firmware/

Quote:

acpi dmi efi memmap

* mount

Quote:

proc on /proc type proc (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
none on /run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,mode=755)
udev on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,size=10240k,nr_inodes=8203830,mode=755)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,relatime,gid=5,mode=620,ptmxmode=000)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
tmpfs on / type tmpfs (rw,relatime)
/dev/sr0 on /mnt/cdrom type iso9660 (ro,relatime,nojoliet,check=s,map=n,blocksize=2048,iocharset=utf8)
/mnt/cdrom/image.squashfs on /mnt/livecd type squashfs (ro,relatime,errors=continue)
securityfs on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
debugfs on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
efivarfs on /sys/firmware/efi/efivars type efivarfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
none on /sys/fs/cgroup type cgroup2 (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,nsdelegate)
mqueue on /dev/mqueue type mqueue (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
/dev/nvme0n1p3 on /mnt/gentoo type ext4 (rw,relatime)
/dev/nvme0n1p1 on /mnt/gentoo/efi type vfat (rw,relatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,errors=remount-ro)

* umount /mnt/gentoo/efi
* arch-chroot /mnt/gentoo/ (entering chroot)
* source /etc/profile
* mount /dev/nvme0n1p1 /efi
* mount

Quote:

/dev/nvme0n1p3 on / type ext4 (rw,relatime)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
sys on /sys type sysfs (ro,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
efivarfs on /sys/firmware/efi/efivars type efivarfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
udev on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,nosuid,relatime,size=10240k,nr_inodes=8203830,mode=755)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,gid=5,mode=620,ptmxmode=000)
shm on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime)
run on /run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,mode=755)
tmp on /tmp type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
tmpfs on /etc/resolv.conf type tmpfs (rw,relatime)
/dev/nvme0n1p1 on /efi type vfat (rw,relatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,errors=remount-ro)

* grub-install --efi-directory=/efi

Quote:

x86_64-efi wird f�r Ihre Plattform installiert.
Installation beendet. Keine Fehler aufgetreten.

* grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

Quote:

GRUB-Konfigurationsdatei wird erstellt ...
Linux-Abbild gefunden: /boot/vmlinuz-6.6.30-gentoo-dist
Initrd-Abbild gefunden: /boot/initramfs-6.6.30-gentoo-dist.img
Linux-Abbild gefunden: /boot/vmlinuz-6.6.30-gentoo-dist.old
Initrd-Abbild gefunden: /boot/initramfs-6.6.30-gentoo-dist.img.old
Warnung: Zur Erkennung anderer bootf�higer Partitionen wird os-prober nicht ausgef�hrt.
Die darauf befindlichen Systeme werden nicht zur GRUB-Bootkonfiguration hinzugef�gt.
Schauen Sie in den Dokumentationseintrag GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER.
Bootmen�-Eintrag f�r UEFI-Firmware-Einstellungen wird hinzugef�gt ...

* efibootmgr

Quote:

BootCurrent: 0001
Timeout: 0 seconds
BootOrder: 0000,0001
Boot0000* gentoo HD(1,GPT,9983de03-eb2d-4b6c-a1f6-a27d7bbe7821,0x800,0x200000)/File(\EFI\gentoo\grubx64.efi)
Boot0001* UEFI: MATSHITADVD-RAM UJ892 SB01, Partition 1 PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x14,0x0)/USB(7,0)/CDROM(1,0x8d,0x1680)/HD(1,MBR,0x0,0x0,0x1680)0000424f

* emerge --info

Quote:

Portage 3.0.63 (python 3.11.9-final-0, default/linux/amd64/23.0/desktop, gcc-13, glibc-2.39-r6, 6.6.30-gentoo-x86_64 x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-6.6.30-gentoo-x86_64-x86_64-13th_Gen_Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i7-13700-with-glibc2.39
KiB Mem: 65642188 total, 64894316 free
KiB Swap: 0 total, 0 free
Timestamp of repository gentoo: Sun, 26 May 2024 15:30:00 +0000
Head commit of repository gentoo: 2e6d759cf2afb066f0ffa8113176455563f8785b
sh bash 5.1_p16-r6
ld GNU ld (Gentoo 2.42 p3) 2.42.0
app-misc/pax-utils: 1.3.7::gentoo
app-shells/bash: 5.1_p16-r6::gentoo
dev-build/autoconf: 2.71-r7::gentoo
dev-build/automake: 1.16.5-r2::gentoo
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dev-lang/rust-bin: 1.77.1::gentoo
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sys-apps/openrc: 0.54::gentoo
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sys-devel/gcc-config: 2.11::gentoo
sys-kernel/linux-headers: 6.6-r1::gentoo (virtual/os-headers)
sys-libs/glibc: 2.39-r6::gentoo
Repositories:

gentoo
location: /var/db/repos/gentoo
sync-type: rsync
sync-uri: rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage
priority: -1000
volatile: False
sync-rsync-verify-metamanifest: yes
sync-rsync-verify-max-age: 3
sync-rsync-verify-jobs: 1
sync-rsync-extra-opts:

Binary Repositories:

gentoobinhost
priority: 1
sync-uri: https://distfiles.gentoo.org/releases/amd64/binpackages/23.0/x86-64

ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="@FREE"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/config /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/dconf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/sandbox.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/var/cache/distfiles"
ENV_UNSET="CARGO_HOME DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS DISPLAY GDK_PIXBUF_MODULE_FILE GOBIN GOPATH PERL5LIB PERL5OPT PERLPREFIX PERL_CORE PERL_MB_OPT PERL_MM_OPT XAUTHORITY XDG_CACHE_HOME XDG_CONFIG_HOME XDG_DATA_HOME XDG_RUNTIME_DIR XDG_STATE_HOME"
FCFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe"
FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-docompress binpkg-dostrip binpkg-logs binpkg-multi-instance buildpkg-live config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles ipc-sandbox merge-sync merge-wait multilib-strict network-sandbox news parallel-fetch pid-sandbox pkgdir-index-trusted preserve-libs protect-owned qa-unresolved-soname-deps sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox usersync xattr"
FFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org"
LANG="de_DE@euro"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed -Wl,-z,pack-relative-relocs"
LEX="flex"
MAKEOPTS="-j8"
PKGDIR="/var/cache/binpkgs"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --omit-dir-times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --exclude=/.git"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
SHELL="/bin/bash"
USE="X a52 aac acl acpi alsa amd64 bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdda cdr cet crypt cups dbus dist-kernel dri dts dvd dvdr elogind encode exif flac gdbm gif gpm gui iconv icu ipv6 jpeg kde lcms libnotify libtirpc mad mng mp3 mp4 mpeg multilib ncurses nls ogg opengl openmp pam pango pcre pdf png policykit ppds qt5 readline sdl seccomp sound spell ssl startup-notification svg test-rust tiff truetype udev udisks unicode upower usb vorbis vulkan wxwidgets x264 xattr xcb xft xml xv xvid zlib" ABI_X86="64" ADA_TARGET="gcc_12" APACHE2_MODULES="authn_core authz_core socache_shmcb unixd actions alias auth_basic authn_anon authn_dbm authn_file authz_dbm authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="karbon sheets words" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" CPU_FLAGS_X86="mmx mmxext sse sse2 aes avx avx2 f16c fma3 pclmul popcnt rdrand sha sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vpclmulqdq" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock greis isync itrax mtk3301 ntrip navcom oceanserver oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf skytraq superstar2 tsip tripmate tnt ublox" GRUB_PLATFORMS="efi-64" INPUT_DEVICES="libinput" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb text" LUA_SINGLE_TARGET="lua5-1" LUA_TARGETS="lua5-1" OFFICE_IMPLEMENTATION="libreoffice" PHP_TARGETS="php8-1" POSTGRES_TARGETS="postgres15" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python3_11" PYTHON_TARGETS="python3_11" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby31 ruby32" VIDEO_CARDS="amdgpu fbdev intel nouveau radeon radeonsi vesa dummy" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tarpit sysrq proto logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account"
Unset: ADDR2LINE, AR, ARFLAGS, AS, ASFLAGS, CC, CCLD, CONFIG_SHELL, CPP, CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, CXX, CXXFILT, ELFEDIT, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, EXTRA_ECONF, F77FLAGS, FC, GCOV, GPROF, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LD, LFLAGS, LIBTOOL, LINGUAS, MAKE, MAKEFLAGS, NM, OBJCOPY, OBJDUMP, PORTAGE_BINHOST, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PYTHONPATH, RANLIB, READELF, RUSTFLAGS, SIZE, STRINGS, STRIP, YACC, YFLAGS

* exit
* umount -R /mnt/gentoo
* reboot
* => Booting into BIOS

* Started with GentooLiveCD
* Set passwd
* Started sshd deamon (next steps via ssh)
* mount /mnt/gentoo
* arch-chroot /mnt/gentoo/ (entering chroot)
* source /etc/profile
* mount /dev/nvme0n1p1 /efi
* grub-install --efi-directory=/efi --removable

Quote:

x86_64-efi wird f�r Ihre Plattform installiert.
Installation beendet. Keine Fehler aufgetreten.

* grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

Quote:

GRUB-Konfigurationsdatei wird erstellt ...
Linux-Abbild gefunden: /boot/vmlinuz-6.6.30-gentoo-dist
Initrd-Abbild gefunden: /boot/initramfs-6.6.30-gentoo-dist.img
Linux-Abbild gefunden: /boot/vmlinuz-6.6.30-gentoo-dist.old
Initrd-Abbild gefunden: /boot/initramfs-6.6.30-gentoo-dist.img.old
Warnung: Zur Erkennung anderer bootf�higer Partitionen wird os-prober nicht ausgef�hrt.
Die darauf befindlichen Systeme werden nicht zur GRUB-Bootkonfiguration hinzugef�gt.
Schauen Sie in den Dokumentationseintrag GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER.
Bootmen�-Eintrag f�r UEFI-Firmware-Einstellungen wird hinzugef�gt ...
abgeschlossen

* efibootmgr

Quote:

BootCurrent: 0001
Timeout: 0 seconds
BootOrder: 0001
Boot0001* UEFI: MATSHITADVD-RAM UJ892 SB01, Partition 1 PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x14,0x0)/USB(7,0)/CDROM(1,0x8d,0x1680)/HD(1,MBR,0x0,0x0,0x1680)0000424f

* umount /efi
* exit
* umount -R /mnt/gentoo/
* reboot
* Booting into Gentoo

But eth0 is not coming up.
Is the distribution kernel not bringing the modules on installation ?

Should I start new topic or can you help me with this also ?

pietinger · Posted: Wed May 29, 2024 6:10 pm Post subject:

SlowMotion · n00b Joined: 26 May 2024 Posts: 36

Thanks, in parallel I was just able to find the correct module (r8169) and configured that it will get loaded automatically

Also I configured network manually to be able to do ssh.

With your information I was able to configure it to come up full configured (enp6s0)

But on reboot it does not shut down completely it stops after

SlowMotion · n00b Joined: 26 May 2024 Posts: 36

Slowly I hit additional problems on the system (not sure which is caused possibly by the faulty uefi). Possibly you can just give me hint, which is independent to that (=> New ticket) and which are related

System is not shutting down
Tried to install kde with sddm (switched profile without explicit building before but built immediately afterwards)
- But sometimes complete screen flickers (between textual and graphical ?) till i stopped the sddm
- Xorg.0.log seems to not finding my Radeon graphic card
At least once system didnt configured network => Needed to start services manually

pietinger · Posted: Thu May 30, 2024 11:28 pm Post subject:

Yes, please do a new thread ... and give us the output of "rc-update" + all 3 files mentionend here (after a fresh system start):
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:Pietinger/Overview_of_System_Information
_________________
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SlowMotion · n00b Joined: 26 May 2024 Posts: 36

One new thread for all or per problem ?

Dont know which are related

pietinger · Posted: Fri May 31, 2024 7:50 am Post subject:

SlowMotion · n00b Joined: 26 May 2024 Posts: 36

Starting new thread with remaining problems (https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1169185.html)

Thanks again for the big help