From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arnout Vandecappelle Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2015 20:52:59 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] grub on target In-Reply-To: <20150424174149.GA627@postdiluvian.org> References: <20150422195220.GA19841@postdiluvian.org> <20150424174149.GA627@postdiluvian.org> Message-ID: <553FD70B.40209@mind.be> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Hi Mark, On 04/24/15 19:41, Mark Mason wrote: > To answer my own question, it looks like I was having some sort of > UEFI-related problem, and it was fixed by a newer version of Grub2. Perhaps you'd like to submit a patch to bump grub2 to a newer version? Regards, Arnout > > When booting from Grub2 under some circumstances (seemingly involving > the phase of the moon and how frustrated I was) I'd get a message > saying "Couldn't terminate EFI service", then some sort of hang. Some > digging around turned up a Grub2 patch to address this issue that > buildroot-2015-02 doesn't have - Grub2 simply retries the service stop > if it fails the first time, emitting a message about retrying the > service stop instead of a message about being unable to stop. > > I have no idea what service(s) are involved, but I've now got reliable > booting. > > It's worth nothing that the Grub2 info page does address > phase-of-the-moon issues, but only involving the graphics. [snip] -- Arnout Vandecappelle arnout at mind be Senior Embedded Software Architect +32-16-286500 Essensium/Mind http://www.mind.be G.Geenslaan 9, 3001 Leuven, Belgium BE 872 984 063 RPR Leuven LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/arnoutvandecappelle GPG fingerprint: 7CB5 E4CC 6C2E EFD4 6E3D A754 F963 ECAB 2450 2F1F