On 12/25/2020 9:41 AM, Walter Dnes wrote:
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.
One thing you could try is using gparted to shrink the partition ever so
slightly. It doesn't need to be big at all. The standard windows EFI
partition is 100MB! That's it. It's not a matter of using FDisk, as I
did too. It's just a matter of remembering to make the partition.
--
Dan Egli
From my Test Server
