Installation Failure of BootIt UEFI
Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2023 4:53 pm
Hello:
I need help in installing BootIt UEFI. I purchased through our purchasing dept the BootIt Collection and Drive Image suite, and I'm unable to install BootIt UEFI on a Dell Latitude 5491 laptop.
I have a brand new 2-TB disk, and my intention is to dual boot the laptop into either Windows 10 or RHEL-7. I have made Image For Linux (IFL) images of a Windows 10 and a RHEL-7 partitions that I would like to restore into the BootIt dual-boot scenario.
When I get to the dialog prompt of "Install boot files to the default UEFI boot directory?" I select Yes, and also select "Yes" on the next two dialogs. After trying to install, I get a warning dialog saying it couldn't install the files in the \EFI\BOOT directory, but it is going to install them in the \EFI\BootIt directory, and it should not be a problem... BTW, the very first install it said it was formatting the brand new disk, and then verifying the sectors (or something like that).
I reboot the laptop and it is unable to launch BootIt from the disk.
I'm very familiar with using IFL's console and its ability to mount and examine disk partitions. Running Image For Linux (IFL) I see that there were two partitions created on disk, the first one is a "Microsoft Reserved Partition" of about 16 MB long, with flags "msftres"; the second partition is a FAT-32 type, ~420 GB EFI System partition, with flags "boot, esp". If I mount the EFI partition, I can see that in the folder /EFI/BootIt/ the only file that was saved by the BootIt install is BOOTIT.INI; there is no *.efi in there at all.
In the laptop BIOS, I can see that it's trying to launch: \EFI\BOOTIT\BOOTX64.EFI -- obviously there is on bootx64.efi file saved in there.
I tried to manually copy the bootx64.efi from the BootIt UEFI installation folder into the /EFI/BootIt directory. When rebooting I get the message that it's unable to load the BOOTIT.DAT file. Again I copied manually the BOOTIT.DAT file from the BootIt UEFI installation folder, and now it says it's unable to load the grubx64.efi. I can't find that file in BootIt UEFI installation folder, so I don't know where to go from there...
It seems the problem is that the BootIt UEFI installation program is just not writing the needed files to /EFI/BootIt. I did try the "No" response to the dialog prompt of "Install boot files to the default UEFI boot directory?", but no luck... I looked at the manual's instructions on disabling any type of boot record protection on the BIOS, but could not find any setting like that. The fact that the installation is writing at least the BOOTIT.INI file means that it is capable of writing to the /EFI/BootIt directory.
Please help!!
I need help in installing BootIt UEFI. I purchased through our purchasing dept the BootIt Collection and Drive Image suite, and I'm unable to install BootIt UEFI on a Dell Latitude 5491 laptop.
I have a brand new 2-TB disk, and my intention is to dual boot the laptop into either Windows 10 or RHEL-7. I have made Image For Linux (IFL) images of a Windows 10 and a RHEL-7 partitions that I would like to restore into the BootIt dual-boot scenario.
When I get to the dialog prompt of "Install boot files to the default UEFI boot directory?" I select Yes, and also select "Yes" on the next two dialogs. After trying to install, I get a warning dialog saying it couldn't install the files in the \EFI\BOOT directory, but it is going to install them in the \EFI\BootIt directory, and it should not be a problem... BTW, the very first install it said it was formatting the brand new disk, and then verifying the sectors (or something like that).
I reboot the laptop and it is unable to launch BootIt from the disk.
I'm very familiar with using IFL's console and its ability to mount and examine disk partitions. Running Image For Linux (IFL) I see that there were two partitions created on disk, the first one is a "Microsoft Reserved Partition" of about 16 MB long, with flags "msftres"; the second partition is a FAT-32 type, ~420 GB EFI System partition, with flags "boot, esp". If I mount the EFI partition, I can see that in the folder /EFI/BootIt/ the only file that was saved by the BootIt install is BOOTIT.INI; there is no *.efi in there at all.
In the laptop BIOS, I can see that it's trying to launch: \EFI\BOOTIT\BOOTX64.EFI -- obviously there is on bootx64.efi file saved in there.
I tried to manually copy the bootx64.efi from the BootIt UEFI installation folder into the /EFI/BootIt directory. When rebooting I get the message that it's unable to load the BOOTIT.DAT file. Again I copied manually the BOOTIT.DAT file from the BootIt UEFI installation folder, and now it says it's unable to load the grubx64.efi. I can't find that file in BootIt UEFI installation folder, so I don't know where to go from there...
It seems the problem is that the BootIt UEFI installation program is just not writing the needed files to /EFI/BootIt. I did try the "No" response to the dialog prompt of "Install boot files to the default UEFI boot directory?", but no luck... I looked at the manual's instructions on disabling any type of boot record protection on the BIOS, but could not find any setting like that. The fact that the installation is writing at least the BOOTIT.INI file means that it is capable of writing to the /EFI/BootIt directory.
Please help!!