I have a dz77ga-70k motherboard with version 0049 of the Intel firmware on it. Linux and elilo will not boot in uefi mode. The symptoms are that when I run bzImage.efi initrd=initrd.img ro debug loglevel=8 earlyprinkt=vga root=/dev/sda2 from the uefi shell, it hangs. And elilo will reboot after selecting the kernel.
Then I compiled the latest kernel source and that failed too. I have added some debugging output to the source, specifically arch/x86/boot/compressed/eboot.c and what seems to be happening is that the call to exit_boot_services is failing all the time. This also happens with elilo.
From the uefi spec, the only reason that exit_boot_services should fail is because the memory map has "changed" between get_memory_map and exit_boot_services.
I'm usually a graphics programmer and don't know much about the kernel/bios stuff, so how can I tell if this is a bug with the firmware or the kernel? I don't mind doing some testing.
It seems that other people are having a similar problem with a similar motherboard: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.devel/167170
Looking at the 8 segment led status codes on the mb, it goes C6 -> start kernel -> F8 -> B1 then hangs. F8 is ExitBootServices and B0 to BF is "detecting and initing fixed media" so maybe it is getting past ExitBootServices?
Any clues?
