[arch-general] Gummiboot and EFISTUB booting irregularities

[Bigby James]

On 07/09, Murari wrote:

> When I start my laptop (or restart it) and select the Arch Linux entry in the
> gummiboot menu, I sometimes only see a blank screen instead of any error
> messages or any of the usual boot text. 

This is a known issue, and yes, it's hard to describe or pin down. Some UEFI
firmwares just don't seem to play nice with the kernel every couple versions or
so. The systems that are effected seem almost random, which is probably why it's
been around for so long. There are two workarounds that seem to work for people:

- Downgrade the kernel and wait until the next update.
- Build a kernel with ABS. For some reason this resolves the issue on some
  machines. And I don't mean build a *custom* kernel---for some reason, simply
  downloading the PKGBUILD for the 'linux' package, running makepkg and
  installing it seems to eliminate boot problems for some people.

Personally, after this happened to me a third time I just started booting in
legacy mode with Syslinux.

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