Re: HELP: UEFI/ZFS Boot failure: Ignoring Boot000A: Only one DP found

I would agree with Karl & Steffen about using rEFInd. It really gives you a
lot more control of your computers boot. Take a look at Rod Smith's pages:
http://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/

I use it to triple boot Windows 10, MX Linux, and FreeBSD.

Clay

On Wed, Aug 21, 2019 at 3:59 PM Karl Denninger <karl_at_denninger.net> wrote:

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> > Toomas Soome <tsoome_at_me.com> schrieb:
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> > >> On 21 Aug 2019, at 22:30, O. Hartmann <ohartmann_at_walstatt.org> wrote:
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> > >> Am Wed, 21 Aug 2019 22:14:46 +0300
> > >> Toomas Soome <tsoome_at_me.com <mailto:tsoome_at_me.com>> schrieb:
> > >>
> > >>> If you drop into efi shell, can you start efi/boot/bootx64.efi
> > manually? you should have
> > >>> fs0: or like for ESP.
> > >>>
> > >>> rgds,
> > >>> toomas
> > >>
> > >> Hello,
> > >>
> > >> I can't even stop to gain access to the shell; there is no
> > timeframe to hit any key to
> > >> stop by and access the efi shell.
> > >>
> > >> Kind regards,
> > >> oh
> >
> >
> > > hm? efi shell should be available from boot device menu, so you
> > mean, you can not even get
> > > into firmware setup?
> >
> > > rgds,
> > > toomas
> >
> > Sorry,
> > I confused loader prompt and EFI shell.
> >
> > I do not have a EFI shell on that type of laptop, not to know about
> > it. I can access the
> > firmware setup and already performed a reset and switched back to
> > default settings. No effect.
> >
> > I just downloaded the newest CURRENT mem stick and extracted both
> > boot1.efi and loader.efi and
> > installed those into the ESP as described, setting the efibootmgr env
> > accordingly. Still the
> > same error.
> >
> > It seems that there is indeed no EFI/UEFI shell. There are Lenovo
> > specific EFI boot options,
> > like "diagnostics" and so on, if selected, the UEFI boots into a
> > firmware embedded diagnostic
> > menu. I tried several from the list given via efibootmgr show -v, but
> > there is no shell from
> > which I could access/boot an alternative loader.
> >
> > How I'm supposed to achive the access to this EFI shell? I doubt that
> > on the E540 (beware of
> > the E, it is not a L or T model) does have such a shell.
> >
> > Regards,
> > oh
>
> I would see if you can get REFIND loaded and use that.  I have a Lenovo
> X1 Carbon Gen 6 and that's the answer I used, as it allows multi-boot
> (e.g. Win10 and FreeBSD) easily.
>
> I've not had trouble with 12.x on it, and I do use the
> geli-encrypted-aware loader.efi.....
>
> If there's a way to get into the EFI shell on Lenovo's laptops from the
> BIOS during the boot I've not found it yet.  There's supposed to be on
> all EFI devices, but you know how "supposed to" works in many cases, right?
>
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