-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On Sun, Jul 24, 2016 at 01:51:54PM +0200, David Hobach wrote: > Dear all, > > I tried installing /boot & /boot/efi to an external USB flash drive which > worked (after many clicks in the installer), but doesn't boot (laptop claims > that there's no boot device). > > I guess the grub installer got confused by the install flash drive also > attached to the laptop during the installation? > I also noticed that my /boot/grub folder only contains a splash.xpm.gz file > and the /boot/grub2 folder only some themes folder (thought there'd be some > config file somewhere?)... > > So how can I re-install the boot loader in 3.2rc1? Unfortunately I'm not > used to EFI boot yet and grub2-install does not appear to be available in a > chroot dom0 environment (tried the Qubes recovery mode). > > Any other ideas why booting might not work?
If you are using EFI, there is no grub involved at all. Your USB drive should be have appropriate layout so EFI firmware will recognize it: 1. Needs to have GPT partition table 2. Needs a partition of type "EFI System", formatted as vfat 3. Content of /boot/efi should be there (especially EFI/qubes) Only /boot/efi is needed to boot in EFI mode, /boot may be left on your main disk, inside encrypted root volume. - -- Best Regards, Marek Marczykowski-Górecki Invisible Things Lab A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJXlK8NAAoJENuP0xzK19cscxoH/0Ca3Y/b5gPmyHMnjeC/F7v8 PJO7bge+0UINDY9OXFsygOppDUv46Mpo40E1gGcD6aeVbEzMxu2bgEwYeTJIQ1T7 b9GDH8foHW/H5pwBbinK5bRQUEn9kOGJ9yc6VfdqPn1efykpaexTGV1Oan0c4+ER pwgXGY3bUkpEjiMBSgwXxpLPnL/QMWM99+yJqQ1rxrRly6YPJUb6ejWiOgsaF2f4 5P0BICjas1pGuzdtCp1XCG1IhqCgftAae+iJncqPF70wM1IoiZK9x+c185R5vWhR NCfjAgFsV0k4YfQzyY0JcYfkAiiws3McxfFNUjzHgbK8sueHyqKFFrNQuzlE7mI= =YfhG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to qubes-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to qubes-users@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/20160724120533.GM5036%40mail-itl. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
