Boot failed - EFI network 0 for ipv6

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i’ve a sony vaio SVS15116GNB laptop. configuration is
core i7 3612QM
4GB Memory
750GB HDD
2GB Nvidia 640M LE with integrated intel graphics (dual mode)
Insyde H2O bios

UEFI with GPT partition.

i’ve created a Opensuse USB using unetbootin on windows.

i’ve installed opensuse 12.3 64 bit DVD (no windows partition)
partitions:
300 MB Vfat efi partition
4GB swap area
25GB ext4 /
50GB ext4 home

desktop: Gnome

installation completes successfully but when a boot the system, it shows a message:
Boot failed - EFI Network 0 for IPV6 <an ipv6 address (can’t capture)>
No Operting System Found.

this happens with all linux distros except ubuntu.
pls give me a solution

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That was probably your mistake.

Just directly write the iso to the USB with something like image-writer. I used “dd_rescue” from linux.

My guess is that unetbootin resulted in a USB that you had to boot in MBR mode rather than UEFI mode.

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i also created a opensuse usb using a live linux mint’s usb image writer. it’s the same. installation does fine. but after installation same error message.
in both the installation usb creations, i’ve seen a EFI partition created in the usb. so i guess it’s not the problem with the installation usb creation.

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Then check your BIOS settings. It looks as if your system is attempting to boot from the network instead of from the hard drive.

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Is it possible that:

  1. Your box is configured with secure-boot enabled;
  2. You did not check the box for “secure boot” in the booting section of the install?

It could be that your BIOS is configured to only use secure-boot, but your operating system is not setup for secure boot. So the BIOS checks the hard disk, DVD, USB, and finally fails over to attempt a secure-boot from the network.

Try disabling secure-boot in the BIOS.

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  1. there is no secure boot option in my bios settings.
  2. network boot is already disabled to fasten the booting.
  3. i burned the image to a disk and tried to install from it. after all configurations done, on the overview page, i checked the booting option, there secure boot was false. i tried both enabling it and disabling it. but the same problem: operating system not found. (not only with opensuse, it happens with all linux except ubuntu 13.04)
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Did you install in UEFI mode or legacy BIOS mode?

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UEFI mode. :sarcastic:

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You have a UEFI machine and no secure boot option???

What hardware is this?

It sounds like that you have a reg BIOS and you need a MBR install.

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please boot in openSUSE rescue mode and post output of “efibootmgr -v”.

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partition is GPT and i was using windows 7 pro 64 bit in it with UEFI for last one year.
was unable to install any linux distro, so removed windows and trying for linux distros. but no success.

in most of the sony laptops secure boot is not in bios options. setting may be there but users are not allowed to change directly.

while from opensuse dvd, however at the begining, it shows that secure bot is not enabled.

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after installation of opensuse, with a opensuse dvd and linux mint usb, output of “efibootmgr -v” is as follows.

BootCurrent:0000
BootOrder:0000,0001
Boot0000 EFI DVD/CDROM ACPI(a0341d0,0)PCI(1F,2)03120a00040000000000CD-ROM(1,426,22ef1c)RC
Boot0001* EFI USB Device ACPI(a0341d0,0)PCI(1d,0)USB(0,0)USB(0,0)USB(2,0)HD(1,108,11c0,5cdcb6b6)RC*

no mention of the opensuse efi partition in the hard disk really surprised me.

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It also does not have any traces of Windows … please use code tags next time, currently it is not clear whether entries are truncated or not.

Well, next obvious step is to look at “gdisk -l /dev/sdX” for each hard disk you have :). You can also paste /etc/fstab from installed system.

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i’ve wiped all the windows partition to try out different linux distros. that’s why no traces of windows…

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EFI boot menu is in theory absolutely unrelated to any disk partition. Although some systems apparently are intelligent enough to remove (or at least hide) boot entries that refer to non-existent devices.