URL:
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Summary: grub2-install reports " "cannot find EFI directory"
if there is a misleading apparent duplicate ESP path in /boot
Project: GNU GRUB
Submitted by: lewyssmith
Submitted on: Tue 09 Feb 2021 11:23:26 AM UTC
Category: None
Severity: Major
Priority: 5 - Normal
Item Group: Software Error
Status: None
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: None
Originator Name: Lewis Smith
Originator Email: lewyssm...@laposte.net
Open/Closed: Open
Release:
Release: 2.02
Discussion Lock: Any
Reproducibility: Every Time
Planned Release: None
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Details:
https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28292
On a Mageia 7 system, unusually the ESP path is /boot/EFI/[EFI/] i.e. the ESP
is mounted on /boot/EFI/ ; rather than on the more normal /boot/efi/. (In
Mageia 8 both variants are linked).
By chance, this user had an additional spurious empty directory
/boot/efi/EFI/, and grub2-install always fails thus:
# grub2-install
installing for x86_64-efi platform
grub2-install: error: cannot find EFI directory
Once the extra directory is removed, leaving just the correct
/boot/EFI[/ESP...], the 'grub2-install command works, so is clearly upset by
the half-duplicate path.
# grub2-install
Installation finished. No error reported
I checked all open bugs first...
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