Minnowboard:MaxBoot

The MinnowBoard MAX comes with a UEFI based boot firmware, and as such follows the basic UEFI specs. In general, if your boot media is setup according to spec (usually containing a efi/boot directory in the first partition which is a vfat partition, marked as a UEFI boot partition) the system should boot without user intervention. However should it not, or you wish to boot a different device please follow these steps:

= Step 1 = Plug everything into the MinnowBoard MAX and attempt a boot. Should it not correctly discover the UEFI boot information (there is at least one known issue surrounding this, that is being worked on), you will get a screen like the one to the right. This is the UEFI shell, and you likely have gotten here by one of a few methods:


 * This may be the first time you've booted the board (this is a known bug)
 * You last booted to the shell
 * You've explicitly set the shell as your default boot
 * You have a storage issue
 * There is not storage on it (things like FS0: will be missing)
 * Your storage isn't configured properly for UEFI
 * You don't have a UEFI boot loader on the device
 * You've explicitly (or accidentally) pressed the correct key to bypass normal boot
 * Something unexpected happened

= Step 2 =