Support for EFI GPT systems?

[jevans]

Hi,

I’m hoping someone can help me with this problem.

I have a few HP Z210 workstations. These units use UEFI and the Windows installation creates 3 partitions- 100MB boot, 128MB MSR (system reserved), and the rest is standard NTFS.

I’m using multiple partition, single disk as the image type.

I can upload the image, and all three partitions get uploaded. I can then deploy the image and all three partitions get deployed.
The system will then fail to boot to Windows with a black screen that states:
Status: 0xc0000225
Info: Boot selection failed because a required device is inaccessible.

Running fdisk from the fog debug menu shows only one partition on the disk.
It is of id: ee which is EFI GPT.

My other systems (non-HP Z210 and are working) are all id: 7 HPFS/NTFS and have the default two partitions for Windows 7 when I run fdisk.

I read that partition type of ee is not supported unless maybe I use Raw Image as the image type.
I would like to avoid this as the hard disk sizes are 320GB.

I’ve tried a variety of different partitioning schemes on this disk but, no matter what I do the disk is always listed as EFI GPT by fdisk after Windows is installed.

Has anyone else experienced something like this or know how to get around it?
Is this a limitation I should expect from other UEFI based systems?
This is my first experience with this problem but, I read that (U)EFI systems are becoming more popular.

I appreciate any help or ideas.

Thanks!

[Matthew Hood]

I am also having this problem when trying to image our Lenovo T520’s. The error code I get is 0xc000000e and the info is “Boot selection failed because a required device is inaccessible.”

Please help

Thanks

[Matthew Hood]

I was able to get my laptop to boot after changing a few setting in the BIOS. I change the sata controller to compatibility mode and I set the UEFI settings on the startup page to boot to legacy device first. You should not have to re-image the computer but you may have to use the windows 7 disc to repair the installation.

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[Brent Hacker]

Turning UEFI boot off for me will still generate errors. I get the “vbe_init failed” using the normal kernel and an NFS error using KS and others. However when I used kernel args with the normal kernel I can get it to upload but it fails with tons of buffer IO errors. sigh I’ve been fighting this for hours

[Brent Hacker]

Hopefully you’ve re-installed windows. The default HP install does come with an extra partition that will mess up the process.

[Jesse]

I am having issues with the same machine (z210). Unfortunately I see NO place to set any UEFI options (short of taking them out of the boot order) and the Sata options are either RAID+SATA or IDE. I set it to IDE and took the UEFI options out of the boot menu, but Win7 still tried to create the 3 partitions.

[Brent Hacker]

I got mine working with turning off UEFI in the boot order, and having it set to RAID+SATA. Just install win7 like normal. When you go to upload you will get some errors and it will pause for a minute but it will upload and deploy.

[Jesse]

OK, thanks. Which kernel did you use? 3.2.4?

[Brent Hacker]

[quote=“Jesse, post: 2077, member: 358”]OK, thanks. Which kernel did you use? 3.2.4?[/quote]
The most recent one yes.

[Jesse]

Thanks!

FYI, if you build a 2.6.X (in my case, I did 2.6.39.4) and add the networking support for the e1000e card, it will run faster than the 3.2.4 kernel.

I am looking forward to reinstalling windows 7 with your tip. I will keep the forum updated. Thanks!

[Jesse]

Brent,

When you went to install windows after disabling the UEFI boot options, did Windows 7 come up with 2 or 3 partitions?

[Jesse]

Nevermind. I had disabled UEFI options as a whole by pressing F5 on the root menu. I had to disable each device individually with F5 (and then the root menu for good measure).

[Jesse]

It finally works. After completing the steps above, it took booting into a Linux LiveCD (sysrescCD to be exact) and changing the partition table to msdos from GPT with parted. After that, Windows installed and imaged beautifully. Thanks!