[SOLVED]UEFI boot gives 'failed to install override security policy'

Hi, newb here who has hit a dead end quite early in the process of installing Arch.
When trying to boot Arch into EFI mode, it says
'failed to install override security policy'
Of course I did my research and it seems that only three other people on this planet have had the same problem, and their solutions do not work for me.
http://superuser.com/questions/615142/u … ity-policy
Overwriting EFI/boot/bootx64.efi with loader.efi enables me to see a menu where I can choose from booting Arch, UEFI shell v1 or UEFI shell v2. Still, selecting Arch results in a blank screen with two grey bars at the top and bottom of the screen, so not really not much help.
I'm not a UNIX nor an EFI wizard, so please bear with me. I'm a Windows user with some anecdotal Linux knowledge (I have installed Ubuntu countless times, wanted a bit of a challenge this time) who wanted to make the switch to the Linux ecosystem, but this error prevents me from doing so. I also tried to install rEFInd as suggested here: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=174734
But I seem to be unable to boot into any UEFI shell v2, it's also printing the errors:
ASSERT_EFI_ERROR (Status = Not Found)
ASSERT C:\svn_code...and so on )
My Windows installation is on BIOS/MBR, so I cannot install rEFInd manually using Windows, and I also cannot use the v1 UEFI shell because of the lacking bcfg command. I don't know how to procede from here. My board is an AsRock P67 Extreme4 Rev 09 with a 2.10 EFI. This board doesn't even have Secure Boot if I'm correct, I also searched every possible submenu of the EFI for an option to disable Secure Boot, but haven't found anything.
Last edited by 0x33 (2015-03-11 17:35:56)

I presume you are trying to use gummiboot?
Please post the contents of /boot/loader/loader.conf and also your gummiboot configuration file for your Arch system (if you are not using gummiboot post the config. files for whichever boot loader/manager you are using).
Load the Arch live ISO, mount all your partitions and `arch-chroot` into your system and then post the output of:
lsblk -f
# parted -l
# efibootmgr -v
Last edited by Head_on_a_Stick (2015-03-10 21:05:43)

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[SOLVED] Failed to install override security policy

Hi,
I am trying to install Arch linux in UEFI in a dual boot setup with Windows 8.1. I already have the Windows OS installed, but every time I go to boot from the Arch installation CD I made using the latest .iso download (2013.12.01), I get the following:
ERROR
Failed to install override security policy: (14) not found
I hit return on the "OK", (the only available option), and the error reappears once again. After I hit return for a second time, the installation quits and I am returned to a normal Windows boot. This error happens right at the very start, I literally tell my computer to boot from the CD drive and then straight away the error appears.
I have tried the solution suggested here:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=169354
(i.e. replacing the bootx64.efi with the loader.efi file (but renamed of course), in the EFI/BOOT/ directory of the iso), and I have tried using other versions of the iso (specifically 2013.10.01) as well as re downloading and re burning the most recent iso. All of these have been to no avail.
I am running an ASUS Sabbertooth 990FX (Rev 1.01), which I know to be an UEFI board. Also, I was able to install Windows 8.1 in UEFI just fine.
Any thoughts about what the problem may be?
PS: Merry Christmas to you all!
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--- SOLUTION ---
Download the Arch Linux variant of rEFInd, from http://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/getting.html. Then, install as per the instructions for you particular operating system and needs; follow the following: http://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/installing.html.
Reboot. Next time your computer starts, after the POST is completed, instead of booting into your normal operating system/boot loader, rEFInd should load instead. It will search for bootable media and operating systems automatically, and present you with a list of options. Choose the one corresponding to your CD/DVD/flash drive (depending on your installation medium). It should then boot in UEFI.
Once you are prompted with a command shell, type the commands:
# mount -t efivarfs efivarfs /sys/firmware/efi/efivars # ignore if already mounted
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Hope this helps some people...
Last edited by Machione (2014-01-10 21:32:05)

Lone_Wolf wrote:Buckeye, Machione did you try disabling secure boot ?
Thanks for the response Lone_Wolf.
I had a good old rummage through the "UEFI BIOS setup" for my motherboard (ASUS Sabertooth 990FX rev 1.01), and found no option to either disable nor enable Secure Boot, which I found rather odd, so I did some searching online and found this quote:
"I've recently bought an ASUS Sabertooth 990FX, which is a uefi
motherboard.
Secure boot cannot be ENabled."
from: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.mageia.user/8143
Intrigued, I then done some more searching, and came to opening up Windows System Information, to see if I had Secure Boot enabled or not already. The result (as shown in the below screenshot), is that Secure Boot is "Unsupported", which means that my "PC does not support Secure Boot or is a Legacy (BIOS) installed Windows". Since I am running Windows already in UEFI, this means that my motherboard indeed does not support Secure Boot, and hence there is no need for me to disable it.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/3to4x7pcxctzz … enshot.jpg
I will send a quick email to ASUS to confirm this finding, but it certainly seems like Secure Boot is not an option that I have, and hence I have no need to disable it in the first place.
Thanks anyway for the response,
-Ryan

[SOLVED] UEFI boot configuration using efibootmgr

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I've been having a very frustrating time with efibootmgr on my HP Laptop.
I've been searching around for some information regarding the OS Bootmanager in UEFI boot and cannot find anything that works for me.
I'm trying to get efibootmgr to load the boot entries in the order that I specify, but, although it lists exactly what I want in the terminal, when it comes to a reboot, the OS Bootmanager is failing and writing new entries every boot and I cannot fathom why.
Please could someone point me in the direction of a good guide to UEFI boot/OS Bootmanager and it's configuration using efibootmgr? I have read info found in the Archwiki, but was hoping for something focussing on efibootmgr alone as a configuration tool.
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Last edited by frazer (2014-03-10 22:21:14)

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I recommend you start by upgrading your firmware. (In some cases, this will wipe out all your boot entries, so be prepared.) If the problem continues, either file a bug report with the manufacturer or return the hardware for a refund and buy something else. The manufacturers have had a long enough time to work out such major problems with their firmware, and returning defective hardware is really the only thing we as consumers can do that will get the manufacturers' attention.
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[SOLVED] UEFI-boot on Intel-NUC

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cybe-arch wrote:
I have followed the installation guide and created a EFI (fat32) partition on GPT.
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[SOLVED] UEFI Boot Troubles (ASUS UX31A-DH51)

Hello. I'm a casual linux user - I develop on linux, but I've never really explored the system itself. In an attempt to do so, I am installing Arch on my Asus UX31A-DH51. I copied the image to my external harddrive and followed the beginner's guide; Everything seemed to be going smoothly, except when I tried to boot into the system, it didn't work.
I suspect this has something to do with the bios being UEFI. However, I followed the instructions here to modify GRUB and, when going to "Launch EFI shell from filesystem device", the screen flickers and then a popup is displayed saying "Warning: Not found". I've also tried installing gummiboot, but that didn't work either. In the BIOS, the main HD isn't displayed as one of the devices that I can boot from either.
I've read this post, and I tried again from scratch using the information, but nothing helped. I didn't try archboot, though, since I don't know where to find the ISO or how to make a USB out of it.
The steps I followed are thus (pretty much all of them follow the beginner's guide):
I created a USB from the latest Arch linux iso, using these intstructions from my desktop computer (Mint 15).
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I connected to the internet using wifi-menu.
Using cgdisk, I erased all the existing partitions on the SSD. I then created three partitions on the drive; a 1.5G EFI System Partition (sda3) - I used the code "ef00" to make it an ESP; a 15G linux partition (sda1); and a 99G linux partition (sda2).
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Last edited by Chaosed0 (2013-09-27 18:48:25)

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I copied "/EFI/grub/grubx64.efi" to "/EFI/Microsoft/Boot/bootmgfw.efi" and created an entry using the same efibootmgr command as two posts above; still no luck. The entry still gets deleted on a reboot, the disk doesn't show up in the devices, etc. I also copied grubx64.efi to /shellx64.efi, but the bios still refuses to recognize it's there.
Here's some output of efibootmgr. This is what it looks like before adding any entries:
BootCurrent: 0001
Timeout: 0 seconds
BootOrder: 0001,0002
Boot0001* UEFI: WD My Passport 070A2003
Boot0002* Hard Drive
Here's after adding the entry:
BootCurrent: 0001
Timeout: 0 seconds
BootOrder: 0000,0001,0002
Boot0000* grub
Boot0001* UEFI: WD My Passport 070A2003
Boot0002* Hard Drive
After rebooting, it goes back to exactly like it was before adding any entries.
Here's my fstab, if it helps at all:
# /etc/fstab: static file system information
# <file system> <dir> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
# /dev/sda1
UUID=556e2aff-a493-4ca9-a62e-175a890b0d03 / ext4 rw,relatime,data=ordered 0 1
# /dev/sda3
UUID=5B17-E429 /boot/efi vfat rw,relatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,errors=remount-ro 0 2
# /dev/sda2
UUID=90dee4b7-caac-4d46-a9c6-4dae5bfc4cea /home ext4 rw,relatime,data=ordered 0 2
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My boot camp fail to install and at the same time i accidentally deleted Mac OS

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[SOLVED] external USB HDD fails to install arch w/boot device ERROR

I've been working on installing arch linux via an external USB harddrive (specifically seagate free agent go 320GB) for 1 week now, and everytime I failed - until TODAY! thankfully I found this post, where user Dieter@be references this link, which displays BUG ID#17231 at the top titled "Can't boot LiveCDs 2009.08 (/dev/archiso doesn't show up)". the bug report states ::
I can't boot the LiveCDs 2009.08, neither netinstall nor core.
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-peace-
PS: no amount of rootdelay=XX nor pmedia=usb nor usbdelay=XX would work in my above attempts either.
Last edited by fnord0 (2010-03-12 04:54:26)

FAT16 here. Parted Magic sees my USB drive as sdd. I tried your way and surprise, surprise, it didn't work.
ln -sf /dev/sdd /dev/archiso
mount -t vfat /dev/archiso /bootmnt
mount : Invalid argument
I thought maybe you meant mount -f vfat /dev/archiso /bootmnt instead. I tried it too, it resulted in a kernel panic.
What else can I try besides installing from a IDE/SATA CD drive ? Because this issue is NOT solved. At least not for me. Wonder if "archlinux-2010.04.05-netinstall-i686.iso" from the here will solve it (really hope so).
SOLVED IT HERE (with yet another image): http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=93645
Last edited by DSpider (2010-04-17 14:21:27)

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[SOLVED] Mount /boot/efi fails after linux-....pkg.tar.xz upgrade

Can anyone help with this please? Sorry if it's a well known issue and I have just failed to find the solution, but I have searched for one.
I use yaourt -Syu regularly, and generally it's great.
BUT - every time linux-3.17...-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz is upgraded the system fails to reboot! Throwing something like:
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Last edited by JohnColeman (2014-11-18 15:58:51)

Hi Matt,
I think you've done it - thanks a lot.
I changed this line in my /etc/fstab :
UUID=0E51-F605 /boot/efi vfat ...
to
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and I think that's done the trick.
I did pacman -U linux-3.16.3-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz again without booting from an archiso image cd in UEFI mode, which would previously have failed - and it didn't.
I look forward to the next actual upgrade of linux-3...
Thanks again, I can't remember how, or why, I went wrong in fstab but I won't do it again.
John

[Solved] UEFI Boot Failure

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I have read plenty of posts of the same issue, but to no avail.
This was using the EFIstub only, when I tried gummiboot I was unable to create EFI Boot variables. (I did check if in UEFI)
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Last edited by Teito (2013-08-30 19:43:20)

I think yuo might have forgotten to actually install and configure gummiboot.
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So what you actually tried to do there is create a direct firmware entry. This is also using Linux as its own bootloader (via efistub). But instead, you simply append the kernel command line arguments to the bootloader (the kernel) directly in that firmware entry. So I am not sure if this was actually your intended goal or not.
I would recommend using the boot manager, and personally I like gummiboot because it is super straight forward to configure. But you are welcome to try using the direct firmware entry as well. Some would argue that the direct entry is faster, but the time it takes for my machine to load gummiboot is typically 14ms, so I consider that argument a bit silly. The advantages of being able to edit the kernel command line before booting are worth far more than 14ms, which is far less than what we used to wait for grub to load from the disk's boot sector.
In order to be absolutely sure you are getting gummiboot, you should install gummiboot (which should actually automatically install itself as /boot/EFI/gummiboot/gummiboot.efi as well as /boot/EFI/boot/bootx64.efi and attempt to make a firmware entry as "Linux Boot Manager"). But instead of trying to use the firmware entry, boot from the disk that the ESP resides on. \EFI\boot\bootx64.efi is the "default" position, so it is what the firmware is designed to search for in the event that it is booting with UEFI and a disk has been selected (instead of an efibootmgr firmware entry). If you have configured gummiboot properly, you will at least make it to the gummiboot menu and know that your UEFI is at least working… as long as you set a timeout >0.
I guess you should clarify what your actualy goal/preference is here, and then we can go from there.

[SOLVED] chromium-pepper-flash fails to install

I use chromium-pepper-flash and today there was an update, but the install script has errors.
Sorry for the locale, but summarized it said cat and sed didn't find a file.
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^
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^
[ -f etc/chromium/default ] && _default='/etc/chromium/default'
^

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I'm trying to remove UEFI boot support of the latest archiso since I have to boot the install CD on my MacBook2,1 (which doesn't support UEFI, only supports 32-bit EFI).
I follow this guide but this is the xorriso output:
libburn : SORRY : Neither stdio-path nor its directory exist
xorriso : FAILURE : Cannot aquire drive 'stdio:~/archiso.iso'
xorriso : aborting : -abort_on 'FAILURE' encountered 'FAILURE'
Can anyone help me with this?
Last edited by mirakulous (2013-05-30 09:34:04)

Hi,
as upstream programmer of xorriso i would really appreciate
to see this fixed in the wiki ... or yielding a bug report
if xorriso is to blame.
I tried the following with success on my quite outdated
GNU/Linux system:
$ wget http://mirror.de.leaseweb.net/archlinux … 1-dual.iso
# mount -o loop /dvdbuffer/archlinux-2013.05.01-dual.iso /mnt/iso
$ xorriso -as mkisofs -iso-level 3 \
-full-iso9660-filenames\
-volid "ARCH_201305" \
-appid "Arch Linux CD" \
-publisher "Arch Linux <https://www.archlinux.org>" \
-preparer "prepared like a BAWSE" \
-eltorito-boot isolinux/isolinux.bin \
-eltorito-catalog isolinux/boot.cat \
-no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table \
-isohybrid-mbr "/dvdbuffer/archlinux-2013.05.01-dual.iso" \
-output "$HOME/archiso.iso" "/mnt/iso/"
(I do not have SYSLINUX development installed, but the ISO image
bears a suitable -isohybrid-mbr template at its start. So i use
that one.)
This yields
GNU xorriso 1.3.0 : RockRidge filesystem manipulator, libburnia project.
xorriso : UPDATE : 107 files added in 1 seconds
xorriso : NOTE : Copying to System Area: 32768 bytes from file '/dvdbuffer/archlinux-2013.05.01-dual.iso'
libisofs: NOTE : Aligned image size to cylinder size by 55 blocks
Written to medium : 260608 sectors at LBA 0
Writing to 'stdio:/home/thomas/archiso.iso' completed successfully.
The original ISO reports on inquiry of its content
$ xorriso -indev /dvdbuffer/archlinux-2013.05.01-dual.iso -toc
Boot record : El Torito , ISOLINUX isohybrid MBR pointing to boot image
Boot catalog : '/isolinux/boot.cat'
Boot image : '/isolinux/isolinux.bin' , boot_info_table=on
Boot image : '/EFI/archiso/efiboot.img' , platform_id=0xEF
The repacked one reports no EFI boot image that is reachable
via El Torito
$ xorriso -indev /home/thomas/archiso.iso -toc
Boot record : El Torito , ISOLINUX isohybrid MBR pointing to boot image
Boot catalog : '/isolinux/boot.cat'
Boot image : '/isolinux/isolinux.bin' , boot_info_table=on
If this does not work for archlinux users, then please tell
me the version of xorriso that fails, the necessary preparations,
the program arguments used, and the messages of xorriso.
Have a nice day
Thomas

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Who helped you today? Do not forget to thank him.
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