Stuck in EFI shell

[LLe]

What does this mean?

[rockedge]

This looks like an internal shell for dealing with the EFI setup for UEFI boot. What were you doing to enter this shell?

[LLe]

This looks like an internal shell for dealing with the EFI setup for UEFI boot. What were you doing to enter this shell?

I just configured Fatdog64, rebooted and it gave me this screen when selecting the first option in the bootloader, keeps giving me this everytime I try to boot Fatdog64 from UEFI, even if it's a fresh ISO. I didn't do anything advanced just configured things from the applications it comes with mostly.

[rcrsn51]

just configured things from the applications it comes with mostly.

You need to be more specific. Is this a hard drive install?

When UEFI firmware boots, it scans the available drives for an EFI System Partition (ESP). This is a fat32 partition with an EFI folder containing a file like bootx64.efi. If it cannot find any such partition, it may default to running the EFI shell.

If possible, boot the machine with a different OS and check to see what is on the drive.

[LLe]

You need to be more specific. Is this a hard drive install?

Not an install, I flashed to a USB drive and later tried burning to a DVD-R, so I don't think it's a problem with the ISO, I downloaded the ISO number of times as well and checked md5, so it is unlikely it was corrupted. I think it the UEFI bootloader utility that is used with this that has some kind of trouble with my laptop, think I had a similar problem with Ventoy and some other puppy in the past. non-UEFI boot still works. maybe the Dog is just too fat to fit into my laptop.

Here's what's on it
https://i.imgur.com/QS50DnI.png

[rcrsn51]

There are many variations of UEFI firmware, so it's hard to know what's going wrong. Have you turned Secure Boot OFF?

FWIW, I can boot the Fatdog ISO on UEFI machines using ISObooter.

Since you just need a UEFI-bootable flash drive. see the instructions here.

[LLe]

Yeah, secure boot is disabled.

I've had good experience with grub2config, that likely would work well in this case as well.