[Buildroot] Flashing EFI on internal SSD

[Carlos Santos]

> From: "LP C" <lpdev at cordier.org>
> To: "buildroot" <buildroot at busybox.net>
> Sent: Monday, August 27, 2018 4:27:23 PM
> Subject: [Buildroot] Flashing EFI on internal SSD

> Hi,

> Simple question here. I have generated an .img file using the
> pc_x86_64_efi_defconfig. My embedded system is an Intel Computestick. Now I
> would like to flash the internal SSD drive of the computestick.
> I tried to load a live distro (ubuntu) and tried to dd's the .img directly on
> the SSD block device and rebooted. Unfortunately the system says that no boot
> device has been detected.

> Secure boot has been disabled in the bios, and UEFI is enabled.

> Any clues on this?

You must create an UEFI boot entry, either interactively via BIOS menu
(depends on the BIOS vendor), or running efibootmgr on the command line.

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Carlos Santos (Casantos) - DATACOM, P&D
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