Re: [gentoo-user] Grub2 can't find any commands
That's an excellent utility, I'll definitely add it to my toolbox, thanks. I actually was able to solve my problem myself: shortly after posting I found a post by renergy on the forums: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-6988228.html It looks like the magic parameters to grub2-install are --root-directory and --boot-directory. Annoyingly, --root-directory is not listed in the help output or man page, so I had no easy way of knowing it existed. But at least everything works now. On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 3:32 PM, Maxim Wexler maxim.wex...@gmail.comwrote: Here's a marvelous program crying out for an ebuild; https://launchpad.net/boot-repair It's part of my Ubuntu setup. With one click it goes out and finds all the boot partitions on your hd(s) and automatically writes the proper grub2 configuration for them. It even pastebins a copy of grub.cfg for troubleshooting purposes, though I have never needed it, sof far. When you boot all your OSes are there in the menu ready to be selected. In my case Ubuntu, Gentoo and Sabayon. . On 3/21/12, Julian Simioni julian.simi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I'm working on the exciting and challenging task of installing Gentoo on a new Macbook Pro with grub2 and EFI. I've got things booting, but every time grub complains of many missing commands including search, echo, and most surprisingly '['. It also can't find any modules, and in order to get everything to work I had to specify about 10 modules to be built in using grub2-mkimage. This feels a little suboptimal to me, but I can't figure out where various things need to be for grub to find them happily. My partition layout at least is simple since I don't plan on dual booting: /dev/sda1: big root partition using ext4 /dev/sda2: 200MB vfat EFI partition, set to bootable (yes this should be sda1: I didn't know you needed an EFI partition until after I had already made the root partition and started installing things. I was able to add this partition later with gparted) Of course I'm using GPT, not MBR. On /dev/sda2 I've got the grub2 image at /EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.EFI as is standard, and I have been mounting /dev/sda2 at /boot/efi. I can put either a grub2 image or a 3.3 kernel with EFI stub support at /EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.EFI and it gets detected just fine, so I'm on the right track. I've tried messing with various permutations of the -p parameter to grub2-mkimage, but haven't gotten anywhere. Right now the *.mod and *.lst files from /usr/lib/grub/x86_64-efi/ can be found at both /boot/grub2/x86_64-efi and /boot/efi/EFI/BOOT/. Where is it that they actually should be? Thanks, Julian
Re: [gentoo-user] Grub2 can't find any commands
Here's a marvelous program crying out for an ebuild; https://launchpad.net/boot-repair It's part of my Ubuntu setup. With one click it goes out and finds all the boot partitions on your hd(s) and automatically writes the proper grub2 configuration for them. It even pastebins a copy of grub.cfg for troubleshooting purposes, though I have never needed it, sof far. When you boot all your OSes are there in the menu ready to be selected. In my case Ubuntu, Gentoo and Sabayon. . On 3/21/12, Julian Simioni julian.simi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I'm working on the exciting and challenging task of installing Gentoo on a new Macbook Pro with grub2 and EFI. I've got things booting, but every time grub complains of many missing commands including search, echo, and most surprisingly '['. It also can't find any modules, and in order to get everything to work I had to specify about 10 modules to be built in using grub2-mkimage. This feels a little suboptimal to me, but I can't figure out where various things need to be for grub to find them happily. My partition layout at least is simple since I don't plan on dual booting: /dev/sda1: big root partition using ext4 /dev/sda2: 200MB vfat EFI partition, set to bootable (yes this should be sda1: I didn't know you needed an EFI partition until after I had already made the root partition and started installing things. I was able to add this partition later with gparted) Of course I'm using GPT, not MBR. On /dev/sda2 I've got the grub2 image at /EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.EFI as is standard, and I have been mounting /dev/sda2 at /boot/efi. I can put either a grub2 image or a 3.3 kernel with EFI stub support at /EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.EFI and it gets detected just fine, so I'm on the right track. I've tried messing with various permutations of the -p parameter to grub2-mkimage, but haven't gotten anywhere. Right now the *.mod and *.lst files from /usr/lib/grub/x86_64-efi/ can be found at both /boot/grub2/x86_64-efi and /boot/efi/EFI/BOOT/. Where is it that they actually should be? Thanks, Julian
[gentoo-user] Grub2 can't find any commands
Hi all, I'm working on the exciting and challenging task of installing Gentoo on a new Macbook Pro with grub2 and EFI. I've got things booting, but every time grub complains of many missing commands including search, echo, and most surprisingly '['. It also can't find any modules, and in order to get everything to work I had to specify about 10 modules to be built in using grub2-mkimage. This feels a little suboptimal to me, but I can't figure out where various things need to be for grub to find them happily. My partition layout at least is simple since I don't plan on dual booting: /dev/sda1: big root partition using ext4 /dev/sda2: 200MB vfat EFI partition, set to bootable (yes this should be sda1: I didn't know you needed an EFI partition until after I had already made the root partition and started installing things. I was able to add this partition later with gparted) Of course I'm using GPT, not MBR. On /dev/sda2 I've got the grub2 image at /EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.EFI as is standard, and I have been mounting /dev/sda2 at /boot/efi. I can put either a grub2 image or a 3.3 kernel with EFI stub support at /EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.EFI and it gets detected just fine, so I'm on the right track. I've tried messing with various permutations of the -p parameter to grub2-mkimage, but haven't gotten anywhere. Right now the *.mod and *.lst files from /usr/lib/grub/x86_64-efi/ can be found at both /boot/grub2/x86_64-efi and /boot/efi/EFI/BOOT/. Where is it that they actually should be? Thanks, Julian
