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[David Richardson <>]

It appears the ONIE partition was #4, which was removed. 
I inherited this box from a now retired colleague. A fresh start will be 
useful going forward :-)

I will restore as per EdgeCore docs and proceed from factory standard.

Thanks for your assistance.

Kind regards,
David
 

> On 13 May 2022, at 14:02, Alexander Gall <> wrote:
> 
> 
> 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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