From ec971376a8772dc72aa6092095aa12f325681ebd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nicklaus McClendon Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2016 17:00:08 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Added unrecognized boot device to UEFI troubleshooting The instructions were pulled from the mailing list here: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/qubes-users/KIIM5YvcuSU/3ldBmzwtBwAJ --- troubleshooting/uefi-troubleshooting.md | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) diff --git a/troubleshooting/uefi-troubleshooting.md b/troubleshooting/uefi-troubleshooting.md index 8c4a0e34..3a10d39f 100644 --- a/troubleshooting/uefi-troubleshooting.md +++ b/troubleshooting/uefi-troubleshooting.md @@ -73,3 +73,15 @@ Some Dell systems and probably others have [another bug in UEFI firmware](http:/ * * * 1 If you use rEFInd, you can see 3 options regarding the USB installer. Choose "Fallback Boot Loader" to enter the GRUB menu. [↩](#a1-1) [↩](#a1-2) + + +Boot device not recognized after installing +------------------------------------------ + +Some firmware will not recognize the default Qubes EFI configuration. As such, +it will have to be manually edited to be bootable (this will need to be done after +every kernel and Xen update.) + +1. Copy /boot/efi/EFI/qubes/ to /boot/efi/EFI/BOOT/ +2. Rename /boot/efi/EFI/BOOT/xen.efi to /boot/efi/EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.efi +3. Rename /boot/efi/EFI/BOOT/xen.cfg to /boot/efi/EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.cfg