[MinnowBoard] MAX doesnt boot Mint und efi doesnt show content of microsd

[John Hawley]

On 11/14/2014 09:19 AM, Bastian Wassermann wrote:
> Hello, sorry for bothering, but i am trying and googling all day and i
> dont get further and i cant see the problem. In my MAX I updated the EFI
> Firmware to version 0.73 that went without any issues. So i loaded the
> Mint 17 live dvd to an usb stick and i bootet from this usb stick. In
> that live distribution i started to install the mint on the sd card.
> After that i have 3 partitions, an efi, a data and a swap partition in
> the big data partition i can see all linux related directories so
> everything looks fine.
> 
> But after that when i reboot the MAX, it can not boot and in all blk the
> ls comand doesnt list any files or directories.

Which ls command?  The one from the EFI shell or the one from your distro?

Reading through this it's not clear to me where the boot is failing.
Since this is an sd card install it's possible that Mint 17 changed the
way they generate the initrd and is no longer including the SD card (or
the correct sd card) drivers.

http://elinux.org/Minnowboard:MinnowMaxDistros#If_you.27re_installing_Fedora_to_a_MicroSD_Card_2

There was a change between 0.71 and 0.73 that switched the default bus
enumeration type from PCI to ACPI, mostly to better support Windows 8.1.
 If you want to try just flipping this back to PCI and see if things get
better you can change it at:

http://elinux.org/Minnowboard:MaxBios#LPSS_.26_SCC_Configuration

"LPSS & SCC Devices Mode"

0.73 defaults to ACPI, 0.71 defaults to PCI

(note that listing is a little out dated, and I haven't had time to
update it and make notes of when defaults changed, etc)

Beyond that if you can give us a better understanding of where it
doesn't boot, or where it stops, that would be helpful.  Even a picture
of the screen might be enough to help us get you through getting it to boot.

- John