On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 05:19:14PM +0200, Pierre Couderc wrote: >On 09/20/2017 04:38 PM, Steve McIntyre wrote: > >> Actually, that's not your problem. My best guess is that you've done >> an installation booted in BIOS mode, not UEFI mode. That's why you've >> got grub-pc installed rather than grub-efi-amd64. Do you actually care >> about booting via UEFI, or are you just looking for a bootable system? >> If the latter, simply reformat your ESP (/dev/sdb1) to be a normal >> ext2 or ext3 partition and use that as /boot. You could even do a RAID >> /boot using sdb1 and sdc1 together... >> >I am sure that my "bios" is UEFI. >But I have done as you say, in case it exists an hypothetical "BIOS mode" in >UEFI : > >root@nous:~# grub-install /dev/sdb1 >Installing for i386-pc platform. >grub-install: warning: File system `ext2' doesn't support embedding. >grub-install: error: filesystem `btrfs' doesn't support blocklists. > >And it fails (as usual with a initramfs prompt)...
Sorry, should have been clearer. Try "grub-install /dev/sdb" to install to the MBR of the disk, not the partition. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com Armed with "Valor": "Centurion" represents quality of Discipline, Honor, Integrity and Loyalty. Now you don't have to be a Caesar to concord the digital world while feeling safe and proud.