Dan McGhee wrote:
> On 10/28/2013 10:55 AM, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
>> Dan McGhee wrote:
>>> GRUB is the next package in Ch. 6 that I will be building. I'm going to
>>> have to deviate from the book to do this since I have a GPT hard drive
>>> and want to maintain it "as is." This means installing GRUB with EFI
>>> enabled.
>> NO, it doesn't. EFI is the replacement for the BIOS, not the partition
>> table type. EFI required GPT, but GPT can be used in a BIOS based system.
> I want to make sure I understand what you're saying. I know enough about
> this just to make me dangerous.
>
> So when <parted /dev/sda print> reports "Partition Table: gpt," I have a
> BIOS based system, because I have a Partition Table, that uses GPT?
No. BIOS firmware can use either GPT or MDSOS partition tables. EFI
systems require GPT partition tables.
>> How do you boot to Linux now? If you are using GRUB, I recommend just
>> editing /boot/grub/grub.cfg and adding a new menuentry. Get it to boot
>> with what you have before changing the boot loader.
> This was my line of thought when I originally posted. Right now, I boot
> right into GRUB. My selections start with "Ubuntu" and trail off for all
> the efi files on my hard drive. It's a long list. What I want is a menu
> with five entries: LFS, Ubuntu, HP, Windows, Windows Rec. Except for LFS
> and Windows Rec, these are all directories on my efi partition and I'm
> hoping I can get my LFS build to act the same way.
>
> Two of the files in /boot/efi/EFI/ubuntu in the ubuntu tree are
> grubx64.efi and shimx64.efi. On the efi partition /EFI/ubuntu has the
> same files. I just wanted to make sure to build GRUB with these two
> files in my LFS build. But then again, I may not have to and just copy
> {grubx64,shimx64}.efi files that alredy exist into an LFS directory.
> I'll know more once I get GRUB built and installed in my LFS partition.
>
> And I'm thinking about being *really* lazy and just copying the ubuntu
> grub config to LFS and modifying it as necessary.
That won't work. GRUB will only read the .cfg file from one location.
You have to reinstall to change it and I don't think you want to do that
yet, if at all.
Send me a copy of grub.cfg off list and I'll see if I can make any
recommendations. I need to know the device for the LFS partition and
where the grub.cfg file is located.
-- Bruce
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