On 09/27/2014 08:57 AM, Dan McGhee wrote:
I build "Linux from Scratch," and am trying to use grubx64.efi to boot
LFS-7.4, LFS_7.5, Ubuntu-14.04 and Win-8.1. At this point, I get the
Grub Menu, but when I select any of the OS's, the screen shifts to
"Loading <name>....." and stops. The only action I can take then is
CTRL-ALT-DEL.
To check things, I modified Ubuntu's three-line grub.cfg on the EFI
partition to point to my LFS-7.5 partition and grub.cfg. I then can
boot any of my OS's. So it seems that the problem is with either the
grubx64.efi that I built or some interface with the efi variables that
I don't know about, much less know how to manipulate. I'm thinking
that I made some uninformed mistake with Grub.
Machine info: HP Envy m6 Sleekbook
Partitions: Windows-(hd0,gpt1), EFI-(hd0,gpt2), LFS-7.5-(hd0,gpt6),
LFS-7.4-(hd0,gpt7), Ubuntu (hd0,gpt8)
I configured Grub with these options:
<original response snipped here>
I inadvertently hit the wrong button in replying to Andrei Borzenkov's
questions. I'll include a summary here.
Upon query and answer, he told me that the current stable version of
Grub was grub-2.02-beta2. Which I installed and got what I wanted.
The only other thing I added was that I was not able to find this
version at ftp://ftp.gnu.org but only at https://launchpad.net from Ubuntu.
Thanks for the help. I appreciate it.
Dan
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