2011/11/29 Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko <phco...@gmail.com>
> On 29.11.2011 08:25, Keshav P R wrote:
>
>> grubx64.efi is installed at /boot/efi/efi/grub2/grubx64.**efi , but the
>> modules are located at /boot/grub (which is $grubdir aka prefix set in
>> grubx64.efi/core.efi). But this again creates confusion for some users who
>> have to find out the "actual" prefix dir in case he/she wants to modify
>> grub.cfg and grubenv in that dir. The only way to force grub-install to
>> install "everything" in /boot/efi/efi/grub/ is to us
>>
>
> The modules and configuration files form platform-independent part as far
> as install is concerned (it's always handles the same way). The grub.efi is
> the EFI specific part which needs to go where EFI expects it. /efi
> directory on ESP as its name implies stores files for EFI, perhaps some
> small config files, it is not to store our bunch of modules. It's ok to use
> ESP to store modules unless they go into /efi directory but it's hard to
> say if such a long list of files will trigger any bugs in firmware
> implementation but in any case platform-independent part shouldn't go into
> firmware-specific directories. We've already had issues with IEEE1275 when
> we did something similar
>
The problem i have is installing both grub2 i386-pc and x86_64-efi . Both
have /boot/grub as $grubdir . I use /boot/grub for all grub2-bios stuff and
/boot/efi/efi/grub for all grub2-efi-x86_64 related stuff. I have not seen
any issue with having modules in <UEFISYS>/efi/grub dir itself. AFAIK the
modules are platform dependent since one can't use i386-pc modules in
i386-efi and vice-versa. x86_64-efi is out of question since its a
different arch. I guess for now doing
sed 's|/boot/grub|/boot/efi/efi/grub|g' -i grub-mkconfig
will do, until you implement the platform specific subdir idea you
mentioned. Thanks for clarifying this. For me this is not an issue. But I
also maintain grub2 packages in Archlinux. What should I tell the users
(those who have both grub2-bios and grub2-efi-x86_64), use
/boot/efi/efi/grub for everything or do the sed stuff for
grub-{install,mkconfig}?
sed 's|/boot/grub|/boot/grub-efi|g' -i grub-{install,mkconfig}
TIA.
Regards.
Keshav
>
> --
> Regards
> Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
>
>
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