Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fresh gen too install - unsuccesful

[Tom H]

On Thu, Dec 25, 2014 at 4:42 AM, Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote:
> On Thursday 25 Dec 2014 09:20:15 Tom H wrote:
>> On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 12:36 PM, German <gentgerman@×××××.com> wrote:
>>> On Sun, 21 Dec 2014 12:17:19 -0500
>>> Tom H <tomh0665@×××××.com> wrote:
>>>> On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 6:30 AM, Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I just tried to boot my Asus MoBo A88XM-PLUS, after I disabled CMS and
>>>>> switched Secure Boot to other OS (as opposed to MS Windows), with
>>>>> sysrescuecd-4.4.1.
>>>>>
>>>>> Unfortunately I can't get a console due to this error:
>>>>> error: no suitable mode found.
>>>>> Booting in blind mode
>>>>
>>>> How about booting without Secure Boot?
>>>
>>> I am booting without secure boot and get the same error
>>
>> I'm sorry. I saw "secure boot" and assumed that you were trying to
>> boot from an unsigned kernel.
>>
>> Your error message above looks like a grub error. Does your grub.cfg
>> load two efi_<something> video modules?
>
> There is no grub on the PC, and the sysrescue LiveCD uses isolinux from what I
> recall. For some reason when booting in EFI mode, sysrescueCD can't find a
> suitable mode for my LCD monitor.

I was answering gentgerman@×××××.com and I thought that he/she was
booting from an HD.

I've installed Linux a dozen times on efi laptops (Gentoo once). I've
used live CDs on all of these laptops and I've used grub and
efibootmgr for all the installs - and gummiboot for some - and I've
only hit this error once, on an install, because I was messing around
with grub.cfg and didn't load efi_gop.mod and efi_uga.mod. I don't
know how the other boot loaders/managers handle video but AFAIK none
of them have modules so it must be built-in.