Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with "GRUB upgrades" news item
On Wed, 6 Mar 2024 at 07:02, Dale wrote: > If you followed the docs for installing grub with EFI, you need to point it > to the location of the efi directory. The command might look like this. > > grub-install --efi-directory=/efi > > Hope that helps. > > Dale Specifically in your case, Walter, that would be --efi-directory=/boot Regards, Arve
Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with "GRUB upgrades" news item
Is your efi fat32 formatted? (required) This usually means its another partition mounted to /boot/EFI BillK On 6/3/24 14:02, Dale wrote: Walter Dnes wrote: I've got a UEFI system. According to the news item... Re-runing grub-install both with and without the --removable option should ensure a working GRUB installation. I tried that... [i3][root][~] grub-install Installing for x86_64-efi platform. grub-install: error: cannot find EFI directory. [i3][root][~] grub-install --removable Installing for x86_64-efi platform. grub-install: error: cannot find EFI directory. Oops! My EFI directory... [i3][root][~] ll /boot/EFI/ total 2 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 512 Jun 11 2021 . drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 1024 Dec 31 1969 .. drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 512 Jun 11 2021 gentoo Any ideas? I don't use EFI but I read on this the other day when I was working my way through this news item. Here is a link. https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GRUB#Installing_GRUB_for_EFI If you followed the docs for installing grub with EFI, you need to point it to the location of the efi directory. The command might look like this. | grub-install --efi-directory=/efi Hope that helps. Dale :-) :-) |
Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with "GRUB upgrades" news item
Walter Dnes wrote: > I've got a UEFI system. According to the news item... > >> Re-runing grub-install both with and without the --removable option >> should ensure a working GRUB installation. > I tried that... > > [i3][root][~] grub-install > Installing for x86_64-efi platform. > grub-install: error: cannot find EFI directory. > [i3][root][~] grub-install --removable > Installing for x86_64-efi platform. > grub-install: error: cannot find EFI directory. > > Oops! My EFI directory... > > [i3][root][~] ll /boot/EFI/ > total 2 > drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 512 Jun 11 2021 . > drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 1024 Dec 31 1969 .. > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 512 Jun 11 2021 gentoo > > Any ideas? > I don't use EFI but I read on this the other day when I was working my way through this news item. Here is a link. https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GRUB#Installing_GRUB_for_EFI If you followed the docs for installing grub with EFI, you need to point it to the location of the efi directory. The command might look like this. | grub-install --efi-directory=/efi Hope that helps. Dale :-) :-) |
[gentoo-user] Problem with "GRUB upgrades" news item
I've got a UEFI system. According to the news item... > Re-runing grub-install both with and without the --removable option > should ensure a working GRUB installation. I tried that... [i3][root][~] grub-install Installing for x86_64-efi platform. grub-install: error: cannot find EFI directory. [i3][root][~] grub-install --removable Installing for x86_64-efi platform. grub-install: error: cannot find EFI directory. Oops! My EFI directory... [i3][root][~] ll /boot/EFI/ total 2 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 512 Jun 11 2021 . drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 1024 Dec 31 1969 .. drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 512 Jun 11 2021 gentoo Any ideas? -- Roses are red Roses are blue Depending on their velocity Relative to you
