On Thu, Dec 24, 2020 at 03:49:35PM -0700, Dan Egli wrote > I see your problem, I think. You don't have your ESP mounted, so > grub can't write the EFI files to it. You are likely trying to use > grub with grub-install /dev/sda. That won't work for EFI. > > mkdir /boot/efi > mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /boot/efi > grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot/efi > grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg > > you MAY need to add --removable to the grub-install line. Some EFI > setups prefer that.
I have this sinking feeling in my stomach that I need to blow away the install (after scp'ing config files to my desktop) and start over. There is no room for another partition. Apparently, using fdisk (like I did) to partition a GPT system is begging for problems down the road. After 20 years on linux, I've been reduced to a newbie. BIOS boot, Lilo, and fdisk served me well for 2 decades. Now I'm going to have to learn UEFI, grub, and parted all at once. I'll start a new thread tomorrow once I have my config files copied off. Then I'll install UEFI mode properly. -- Walter Dnes <[email protected]> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
