[Assist] [Libreboot] Lastest Libreboot versions not for my X60 ( Parabola )

[Olivier Mondoloni]

Hi Luke,

in fact, when I installed Parabola, I keep the Trisquel partitionning 
scheme so /boot is on /dev/sda1 .
My partition is not an lvm or an encrypted one .
To boot on Parabola, I use the default GRUB entry ( the first of the 
menu ) .
I think about tests that I could make because I have on / soft links to 
vmlinuz and initrd.img .
I continue to investigate .

Thank you for your help

Le 16.09.2016 06:09, Luke Shumaker a écrit :
> On Wed, 14 Sep 2016 09:04:55 -0400,
> Olivier Mondoloni wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>>     I own a notebook with Libreboot formerly known as Gluglug X60s .
>>     I tested all the lastest libreboot versions ( 20160907, 20160902,
>>     20160818 ) without success .
> 
> I recently upgraded my Parabola-running x60s to 20160902 (the release
> announcement suggests that there is no difference between it and
> 20160907 on the x60s).
> 
>>     Each test show the grub splash screen with all the menus entries .
>>     After the boot process launch, I have been stuck to the grub 
>> splash
>>     screen with the hard drive led always on .
> 
> Trying the default grub.cfg, it seemed to do what you describe.  For
> me, the resolution was to load a custom grub.cfg into libreboot, as I
> had always done (as the default doesn't check the right LVM volumes).
> It seems that the GRUB scripting language can't do the appropriate
> looping to be able to handle it in a generic way.
> 
> Anyway, what device does your /boot reside on?  What is the grub
> configuration's filename there?  My guess would be that the latest
> libreboots dropped a location that they used to check (although, I
> don't think they did).
> 
> I've also experienced that for some reason, LVM reads can be very
> slow in libreboot GRUB, IDK why.  It is possible that it's getting
> hung up when it tries checking the LVM devices, but would eventually
> find your install.