On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 2:37 PM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
I gave up and restored a backup onto a host without the EFI boot partition and tweaked it to use the old-style grub invocation. The machines seem to fail back to 'legacy' mode when there is no EFI/fat partition to boot from. This gives a layout where rear and clonezilla 'just work' and I'll know how to fix it if anything breaks. Maybe I'll try again when rear supports UEFI (in the works) and I can look at their shell scripts to figure it out.
You might look at the firmware setup - our Dells let you choose UEFI or BIOS.
Letting it fall back on its own is OK - the problem was that someone set up a server for development work, then wanted a bunch of identical copies. And the default install had set up the UEFI boot stuff. Another box I had installed myself with explicitly configured partitions didn't. Seems kind of strange, but who understands anaconda?
-- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@gmail.com