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[Alexander Gall <>]

It could also be that it's simply the boot order that's wrong. @david,
you could try to select the ONIE partition as boot device from the
BIOS. If that doesn't work I would also suggest to reinstall ONIE as
Frederic has said.

-- 
Alex 

On Fri, 13 May 2022 14:53:52 +0200, Frédéric LOUI <> 
said:

> Hi David,
> The suggested installation suggested to start from ONIE with factory 
> settings.
> It seemed that you had multiple partition before having undertaking this 
> install including the ONIE partition.

> If possible, I would suggest to restore factory settings using USB port as 
> per EdgeCore documentation.
> For that you’d need ONIE base installation from EdgeCore website or support.

> Perform the restore installation in order to get back a clean slate 
> environment.

> Then you can perform RARE/freeRtr ONIE installation as per the procedure.

> You can still use grub CLI and restore system boot manually but it seems 
> that EFI has changed.
> Is it the Wedge that Victor used ?

> For factory settings procedure, please contact your support either via 
> STORDIS and/or EdgeCore.

> The good news is that you would have to take this path one day or another.

> Good luck
> Frederic
 


>> Le 13 mai 2022 à 14:32, David Richardson <> a 
>> écrit :
>> 
>> Hi Alex,
>> 
>> I’ve used sgdisk to remove partitions 3-5 (there were no partition 6 & 7).
>> 
>> sgdisk -d 3 /dev/sda
>> etc..
>> 
>> I then did  'wedge_power.sh reset && sol.sh’ to reboot, however I now just 
>> get a 'grub rescue>' prompt.
>> 
>> Can you suggest how to proceed from here?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> David
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> On 13 May 2022, at 07:55, Alexander Gall <> wrote:
>>> 
>>> @David: as a workaroud, you can try to delete partitions 3-7 by hand
>>> and re-run the installer.
>> 
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