UEFI boot loader does not show up in firmware menu, System dont boot anymore

swh · December 10, 2023, 2:18pm

My system dont boot anymore.

After an update two days ago i have very strange boot behavior.

The system only gets as far as the Bios Aorus start screen
I don’t reach the image selection prompt that would usually come after that.

However, when I go into the BIOS and change the boot order, save and reboot, I have a prompt. of course, there is no efi on it. As soon as I set the actual endeavoros again, I can boot again.

this is very, very strange

I am completely overwhelmed with how I can restore this.

journalctl -b -0 | eos-sendlog

https://0x0.st/H39O.txt

lsinitrd | eos-sendlog

https://0x0.st/H39v.txt

efivar --list

https://0x0.st/H3fI.txt

lsblk

NAME        MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
sda           8:0    0 931,5G  0 disk 
└─sda1        8:1    0 931,5G  0 part /srv/nfsv4/Share
                                      /run/media/swh/Mediathek
sdb           8:16   0 931,5G  0 disk /srv/nfsv4/Filme
                                      /run/media/swh/Stuff
sdc           8:32   0 223,6G  0 disk 
└─sdc1        8:33   0 223,6G  0 part /run/media/swh/76bd6be1-9d39-40d3-817a-e3acbc647e0a
sdd           8:48   0 465,8G  0 disk 
└─sdd1        8:49   0 465,8G  0 part /run/media/swh/xtern_bckup
sr0          11:0    1  1024M  0 rom  
nvme1n1     259:0    0 931,5G  0 disk 
└─nvme1n1p1 259:2    0 931,5G  0 part /home
nvme0n1     259:1    0 232,9G  0 disk 
├─nvme0n1p1 259:3    0   500M  0 part /efi
└─nvme0n1p2 259:4    0 232,4G  0 part /

Surely one of you can help me to repair my system.

Thanks in advance!

dalto · December 10, 2023, 2:23pm

Do you need to do that every time you boot from full power off? Is it possible your BIOS battery needs replacing?

swh · December 10, 2023, 2:26pm

Yes i need to do that everytime when i have full power off. I have buyed that Mainboard one year ago. So I can’t imagine that the battery is flat. Can I check this? Or do I have to remove it?

dalto · December 10, 2023, 2:27pm

Haha…I have had the batteries be dead out of the box on a newly released MB.

swh · December 10, 2023, 2:29pm

Well, actually my system looks completely ok.

Don’t laugh at me…now that I think about it, of course you’re absolutely right

I have to check my Battery. If its that simple, everything is fine

fred666 · December 10, 2023, 2:30pm

Usually when the bios battery runs out you get bios alerts as configuration changed or time/date changed

You can check that battery with a volt meter (remove the battery first)
It is unlikely that the battery dies this quick (not impossible though), it usually last 10 years

swh · December 10, 2023, 2:31pm

Ok , actually there is a backup running in the backround. When its finished i will check the Battery

swh · December 10, 2023, 3:01pm

@fred666 @dalto
I checked the BIOS battery, it has 3.059V.
Now it has booted, but it took a very long time. I have attached a bootjournal-log.

journalctl -b -0 | eos-sendlog

https://0x0.st/H3Oz.txt

swh · December 10, 2023, 3:32pm

@dalto

I checked again with inxi and found that no battery is displayed.
How is this to be understood?

inxi -v 7

System:
  Host: ryzen Kernel: 6.1.66-1-lts arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc
    v: 13.2.1 clocksource: tsc Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 5.27.10 tk: Qt v: 5.15.11
    wm: kwin_x11 vt: 2 dm: SDDM Distro: EndeavourOS base: Arch Linux
Machine:
  Type: Desktop Mobo: Gigabyte model: B550 AORUS ELITE V2
    serial: <superuser required> UEFI: American Megatrends LLC. v: F16g
    date: 09/20/2023
Battery:
  Message: No system battery data found. Is one present?
Memory:
  System RAM: total: 16 GiB available: 15.46 GiB used: 4.43 GiB (28.7%)
  RAM Report: permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges
    required.
CPU:
  Info: 8-core model: AMD Ryzen 7 5700G with Radeon Graphics bits: 64
    type: MT MCP smt: enabled arch: Zen 3 rev: 0 cache: L1: 512 KiB L2: 4 MiB
    L3: 16 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 2022 high: 2994 min/max: 1400/4672 boost: enabled cores:
    1: 1400 2: 2994 3: 2384 4: 1400 5: 2395 6: 1400 7: 1400 8: 1400 9: 2395
    10: 1700 11: 1400 12: 2394 13: 2523 14: 2391 15: 2392 16: 2394
    bogomips: 121424
  Flags: 3dnowprefetch abm adx aes aperfmperf apic arat avic avx avx2 bmi1
    bmi2 bpext cat_l3 cdp_l3 clflush clflushopt clwb clzero cmov cmp_legacy
    constant_tsc cpb cppc cpuid cqm cqm_llc cqm_mbm_local cqm_mbm_total
    cqm_occup_llc cr8_legacy cx16 cx8 de decodeassists erms extapic
    extd_apicid f16c flushbyasid fma fpu fsgsbase fsrm fxsr fxsr_opt ht
    hw_pstate ibpb ibrs ibs invpcid irperf lahf_lm lbrv lm mba mca mce
    misalignsse mmx mmxext monitor movbe msr mtrr mwaitx nonstop_tsc nopl npt
    nrip_save nx ospke osvw overflow_recov pae pat pausefilter pclmulqdq
    pdpe1gb perfctr_core perfctr_llc perfctr_nb pfthreshold pge pku pni
    popcnt pse pse36 rapl rdpid rdpru rdrand rdseed rdt_a rdtscp rep_good sep
    sha_ni skinit smap smca smep ssbd sse sse2 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3
    stibp succor svm svm_lock syscall tce topoext tsc tsc_scale umip
    v_spec_ctrl v_vmsave_vmload vaes vgif vmcb_clean vme vmmcall vpclmulqdq
    wbnoinvd wdt x2apic xgetbv1 xsave xsavec xsaveerptr xsaveopt xsaves
Graphics:
  Device-1: AMD Navi 23 [Radeon RX 6600/6600 XT/6600M] vendor: Gigabyte
    driver: amdgpu v: kernel arch: RDNA-2 pcie: speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 ports:
    active: DP-2 empty: DP-1,HDMI-A-1,HDMI-A-2 bus-ID: 03:00.0
    chip-ID: 1002:73ff class-ID: 0300
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.9 with: Xwayland v: 23.2.2
    compositor: kwin_x11 driver: X: loaded: amdgpu unloaded: modesetting,radeon
    alternate: fbdev,vesa dri: radeonsi gpu: amdgpu display-ID: :0 screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 508x285mm (20.00x11.22")
    s-diag: 582mm (22.93")
  Monitor-1: DP-2 mapped: DisplayPort-1 model: LG (GoldStar) ULTRAGEAR
    serial: 3209 res: 1920x1080 dpi: 93 size: 527x296mm (20.75x11.65")
    diag: 604mm (23.8") modes: max: 1920x1080 min: 640x480
  API: EGL v: 1.5 hw: drv: amd radeonsi platforms: device: 0 drv: radeonsi
    device: 1 drv: swrast gbm: drv: kms_swrast surfaceless: drv: radeonsi x11:
    drv: radeonsi inactive: wayland
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: amd mesa v: 23.2.1-arch1.2
    glx-v: 1.4 direct-render: yes renderer: AMD Radeon RX 6600 (navi23 LLVM
    16.0.6 DRM 3.49 6.1.66-1-lts) device-ID: 1002:73ff
  API: Vulkan v: 1.3.269 layers: 3 surfaces: xcb,xlib device: 0
    type: discrete-gpu hw: amd driver: mesa radv device-ID: 1002:73ff
Audio:
  Device-1: AMD Navi 21/23 HDMI/DP Audio driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie:
    speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 03:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:ab28 class-ID: 0403
  Device-2: AMD Renoir Radeon High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel
    v: kernel pcie: speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 09:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:1637
    class-ID: 0403
  Device-3: AMD Family 17h/19h HD Audio vendor: Gigabyte
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16
    bus-ID: 09:00.6 chip-ID: 1022:15e3 class-ID: 0403
  Device-4: Logitech V10 Notebook Speakers
    driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid type: USB rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s
    lanes: 1 bus-ID: 1-3:2 chip-ID: 046d:0a10 class-ID: 0300
  API: ALSA v: k6.1.66-1-lts status: kernel-api
  Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.0.0 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse
    status: active 2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin
    4: pw-jack type: plugin
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8125 2.5GbE vendor: Gigabyte driver: r8169 v: kernel
    pcie: speed: 5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: e000 bus-ID: 07:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8125
    class-ID: 0200
  IF: enp7s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: d8:5e:d3:5b:ab:15
  IP v4: 192.168.178.22/24 type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global
    broadcast: 192.168.178.255
  IP v6: fe80::c9dd:3c93:3f2b:2418/64 type: noprefixroute scope: link
  WAN IP: 2.202.158.193
Bluetooth:
  Message: No bluetooth data found.
Logical:
  Message: No logical block device data found.
RAID:
  Message: No RAID data found.
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 3.17 TiB used: 2.11 TiB (66.6%)
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 980 PRO 250GB
    size: 232.89 GiB speed: 63.2 Gb/s lanes: 4 tech: SSD serial: S5GZNJ0RC12478R
    fw-rev: 4B2QGXA7 temp: 34.9 C scheme: GPT
  ID-2: /dev/nvme1n1 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 980 PRO 1TB size: 931.51 GiB
    speed: 63.2 Gb/s lanes: 4 tech: SSD serial: S5GXNL0W407287A fw-rev: 5B2QGXA7
    temp: 29.9 C scheme: GPT
  ID-3: /dev/sda vendor: Toshiba model: HDWD110 size: 931.51 GiB
    speed: 6.0 Gb/s tech: HDD rpm: 7200 serial: X8N53D7FS fw-rev: A8R0
    scheme: MBR
  ID-4: /dev/sdb vendor: Toshiba model: HDWD110 size: 931.51 GiB
    speed: 6.0 Gb/s tech: HDD rpm: 7200 serial: 693WHXDNS fw-rev: A8R0
  ID-5: /dev/sdc vendor: Crucial model: CT240BX500SSD1 size: 223.57 GiB
    speed: 6.0 Gb/s tech: SSD serial: 2122E5A3760B fw-rev: 052 scheme: GPT
  Optical-1: /dev/sr0 vendor: hp model: CDDVDW TS-H653T rev: H6D1
    dev-links: cdrom
  Features: speed: 40 multisession: yes audio: yes dvd: yes
    rw: cd-r,cd-rw,dvd-r,dvd-ram state: running
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 227.69 GiB used: 57.37 GiB (25.2%) fs: ext4
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 label: N/A uuid: de0eeb1f-095d-408b-b6c3-ebda58df6d41
  ID-2: /efi size: 499 MiB used: 375.1 MiB (75.2%) fs: vfat
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 label: N/A uuid: D3E2-C3D4
  ID-3: /home size: 915.82 GiB used: 512.7 GiB (56.0%) fs: ext4
    dev: /dev/nvme1n1p1 label: N/A uuid: 74af6462-ba4b-48bf-993b-164ba88fbabb
  ID-4: /run/media/swh/76bd6be1-9d39-40d3-817a-e3acbc647e0a size: 219 GiB
    used: 59.05 GiB (27.0%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sdc1 label: N/A
    uuid: 76bd6be1-9d39-40d3-817a-e3acbc647e0a
  ID-5: /run/media/swh/Mediathek size: 915.82 GiB used: 742.19 GiB (81.0%)
    fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1 label: Mediathek
    uuid: 9b940cbe-8123-4748-91f3-8116edd8bd43
  ID-6: /run/media/swh/Stuff size: 915.82 GiB used: 791.94 GiB (86.5%)
    fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sdb label: Stuff
    uuid: 70357a40-3800-404d-a68e-dc5b32c83377
Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: file size: 16 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2
    file: /swapfile
Unmounted:
  Message: No unmounted partitions found.
USB:
  Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 10 rev: 2.0
    speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
  Device-1: 1-3:2 info: Logitech V10 Notebook Speakers type: audio,HID
    driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid interfaces: 3 rev: 1.1
    speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 power: 500mA chip-ID: 046d:0a10 class-ID: 0300
  Hub-2: 1-6:3 info: Genesys Logic Hub ports: 4 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s
    lanes: 1 power: 100mA chip-ID: 05e3:0608 class-ID: 0900
  Device-1: 1-7:4 info: Integrated Express RGB LED Controller type: HID
    driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 1 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1
    power: 100mA chip-ID: 048d:5702 class-ID: 0300
  Device-2: 1-8:5 info: Logitech Keyboard K120 type: keyboard,HID
    driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 2 rev: 1.1 speed: 1.5 Mb/s lanes: 1
    power: 90mA chip-ID: 046d:c31c class-ID: 0300
  Device-3: 1-9:6 info: CHERRY Mouse type: mouse driver: hid-generic,usbhid
    interfaces: 1 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 power: 100mA
    chip-ID: 046a:c094 class-ID: 0301
  Hub-3: 2-0:1 info: super-speed hub ports: 4 rev: 3.1 speed: 10 Gb/s
    lanes: 1 chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900
  Hub-4: 3-0:1 info: hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 4 rev: 2.0
    speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
  Hub-5: 4-0:1 info: super-speed hub ports: 2 rev: 3.1 speed: 10 Gb/s
    lanes: 1 chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900
  Hub-6: 5-0:1 info: hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 4 rev: 2.0
    speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
  Hub-7: 6-0:1 info: super-speed hub ports: 2 rev: 3.1 speed: 10 Gb/s
    lanes: 1 chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 35.2 C mobo: 30.0 C gpu: amdgpu temp: 38.0 C
    mem: 38.0 C
  Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A gpu: amdgpu fan: 0
Info:
  Processes: 366 Uptime: 33m wakeups: 0 Init: systemd v: 255
  default: graphical Compilers: gcc: 13.2.1 clang: 16.0.6 Packages: pm: pacman
  pkgs: 1778 Shell: Zsh v: 5.9 default: Bash v: 5.2.21 running-in: konsole
  inxi: 3.3.31

dalto · December 10, 2023, 3:35pm

I always assumed that referred to battery as in the kind that was in a laptop.

swh · December 10, 2023, 3:38pm

I didn’t realize that. That is quite possible. Then I can probably ignore this message. I will continue to try to fix the error.

swh · December 10, 2023, 3:47pm

@dalto @fred666

I have found the error.

I am a miserable fool
Oh my God, there is a switch in my built-in power supply unit that can be used to switch to hybrid mode. I must have somehow got hold of it while dusting or something.
Switched to normal mode and everything is as it should be…

Sorry, but thanks for your attention

fred666 · December 10, 2023, 3:49pm

Mm never heard of hybride mode for a power supply?

Picture perhaps?

dalto · December 10, 2023, 3:50pm

Eh? Doesn’t that just control the fan on the power supply? Are you sure that is the issue?

Is it possible that removing the battery reset your BIOS and that solved the issue?

swh · December 10, 2023, 3:54pm

I set the switch to normal mode and I had the UEFI boot menu immediately after the Gigabyte logo.

I have not replaced the battery. I just removed it and measured the voltage. After that I had a boot time of one minute again until I got to the UEFI boot menu.

fred666 · December 10, 2023, 3:55pm

Bios reset could be helped, like @dalto said

I have had several Gigabyte motherboards that all have “strange” bios issues like not boot at all, hang just before boot etc.
Maybe check if there is a bios update?

swh · December 10, 2023, 3:57pm

sammiev · December 10, 2023, 3:57pm

Try switching it back again to see if the problem starts back up.

swh · December 10, 2023, 3:58pm

I have updated the BIOS to f16g only three weeks ago

dalto · December 10, 2023, 4:00pm

That is probably caused by removing the battery and replacing it(with the same battery). It caused it reset. The first boot time after a reset will normally be longer.