Hi, My machine has an UEFI BIOS, so that I rarely run grub-install. But yesterday, I built a new qemu VM, with a non-UEFI (virtual) BIOS. When running grub-install, it failed with a message (sorry, I haven't saved it) telling that it could not find /usr/lib/grub/x86_64-efi. Running "grub-install --help" returned: --------- [...] --target TARGET install GRUB for TARGET platform [default=x86_64-efi] [...] --------- so I had to run "grub-install --target i386-pc /dev/sda". But now that I have done that, "grub-install --help" returns: --------- [...] --target TARGET install GRUB for TARGET platform [default=i386-pc] [...] ---------
So the default seems to be what is already installed. Checking the source for grub-install confirms that. I must have taken a virtual disk used for a former VM with UEFI BIOS. Should we add this switch (--target i386-pc) to the grub-install command in the book? Pierre -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
