Re: Followup: How do I generate grub for legacy?

2019-09-06 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 9/4/19 7:55 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: On 5/1/19 2:48 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: Hi All, I have a Fedora 30 flash drive set up for dual booting from Legacy or UEFI.  It boots beautifully from UEFI. (It also have a bios_grub partition). It booted perfectly from both under

Re: Followup: How do I generate grub for legacy?

2019-09-04 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 5/1/19 2:48 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: Hi All, I have a Fedora 30 flash drive set up for dual booting from Legacy or UEFI.  It boots beautifully from UEFI. (It also have a bios_grub partition). It booted perfectly from both under Fedora 29. Now when booting from legacy, it go into

Re: How do I generate grub for legacy?

2019-05-13 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2019-05-12 at 20:13 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > > > I am confused. :'( > > Thank you! I will have to read it over several times I hesitate to invite more flames, but would people please try to trim the quoted material when replying? There's really no need to copy an entire

Re: How do I generate grub for legacy?

2019-05-12 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 5/12/19 1:51 AM, ja wrote: On Sat, 2019-05-11 at 17:53 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: On 5/11/19 7:25 AM, ja wrote: On Sun, 2019-05-05 at 00:12 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: On 5/4/19 11:42 AM, Chris Murphy wrote: The grub2-mkconfig script detects EFI and creates a "System

Re: How do I generate grub for legacy?

2019-05-12 Thread ja
On Sat, 2019-05-11 at 17:53 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > On 5/11/19 7:25 AM, ja wrote: > > On Sun, 2019-05-05 at 00:12 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > > > On 5/4/19 11:42 AM, Chris Murphy wrote: > > > > The grub2-mkconfig script detects EFI and creates a "System setup" > > > >

Re: How do I generate grub for legacy?

2019-05-11 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 5/11/19 7:25 AM, ja wrote: On Sun, 2019-05-05 at 00:12 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: On 5/4/19 11:42 AM, Chris Murphy wrote: The grub2-mkconfig script detects EFI and creates a "System setup" menu entry so the user can get into firmware setup (functionally the same thing as an F key

Re: How do I generate grub for legacy?

2019-05-11 Thread ja
On Sun, 2019-05-05 at 00:12 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > On 5/4/19 11:42 AM, Chris Murphy wrote: > > The grub2-mkconfig script detects EFI and creates a "System setup" > > menu entry so the user can get into firmware setup (functionally the > > same thing as an F key at boot time to get

Re: How do I generate grub for legacy?

2019-05-06 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 5/5/19 6:24 AM, Tom H wrote: On Sun, May 5, 2019 at 7:57 AM ToddAndMargo via users wrote: On 5/4/19 5:23 AM, Tom H wrote: 1) Shouldn't you be able to access the firmware even if you're booting from csm? I have two qemu-kvm machines. one for testing usb stick with legacy bios and one for

Re: How do I generate grub for legacy?

2019-05-05 Thread Tom H
On Sun, May 5, 2019 at 7:57 AM ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > On 5/4/19 5:23 AM, Tom H wrote: >> >> 1) Shouldn't you be able to access the firmware even if you're >> booting from csm? > > I have two qemu-kvm machines. one for testing usb stick with legacy > bios and one for testing with efi

Re: How do I generate grub for legacy?

2019-05-05 Thread Tom H
On Sat, May 4, 2019 at 1:13 PM ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > On 5/4/19 3:47 AM, Tom H wrote: >> On Sat, May 4, 2019 at 1:05 AM Samuel Sieb wrote: >>> On 5/3/19 2:30 PM, Tom H wrote: On Fri, May 3, 2019 at 9:52 PM Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 5/3/19 12:25 PM, Tom H wrote: >> >> You

Re: How do I generate grub for legacy?

2019-05-05 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 5/4/19 11:42 AM, Chris Murphy wrote: The grub2-mkconfig script detects EFI and creates a "System setup" menu entry so the user can get into firmware setup (functionally the same thing as an F key at boot time to get into what some people call 'BIOS setup' but that's confusing to say on a UEFI

Re: How do I generate grub for legacy?

2019-05-04 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 5/4/19 5:23 AM, Tom H wrote: 1) Shouldn't you be able to access the firmware even if you're booting from csm? I have two qemu-kvm machines. one for testing usb stick with legacy bios and one for testing with efi bios. Neither has a is no csm mode. This is on purpose. 2) Check

Re: How do I generate grub for legacy?

2019-05-04 Thread Chris Murphy
On Sat, May 4, 2019 at 3:48 PM Samuel Sieb wrote: > > On 5/4/19 11:20 AM, Chris Murphy wrote: > > I'm not sure when this went away, but on a current Fedora 29 Server on > > a UEFI Intel NUC, the menu entries are linux and initrd. The linuxefi > > initrdefi and linux16 initrd16 distinctions aren't

Re: How do I generate grub for legacy?

2019-05-04 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 5/4/19 11:20 AM, Chris Murphy wrote: I'm not sure when this went away, but on a current Fedora 29 Server on a UEFI Intel NUC, the menu entries are linux and initrd. The linuxefi initrdefi and linux16 initrd16 distinctions aren't present anymore. And it's the same on both Fedora 30

Re: How do I generate grub for legacy?

2019-05-04 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 5/4/19 2:49 AM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: On 5/3/19 11:17 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 5/3/19 6:28 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: What do you mean by? change linuxefi > linux16,initrdefi > initrd16* "linuxefi" does not exist in grub.cfg.  Neither does linux16 or initrdefi The EFI

Re: How do I generate grub for legacy?

2019-05-04 Thread Chris Murphy
On Wed, May 1, 2019 at 3:49 PM ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > > Hi All, > > I have a Fedora 30 flash drive set up for dual booting > from Legacy or UEFI. It boots beautifully from UEFI. > (It also have a bios_grub partition). > > It booted perfectly from both under Fedora 29. > > Now when

Re: How do I generate grub for legacy?

2019-05-04 Thread Chris Murphy
On Fri, May 3, 2019 at 5:05 PM Samuel Sieb wrote: > > On 5/3/19 2:30 PM, Tom H wrote: > > On Fri, May 3, 2019 at 9:52 PM Samuel Sieb wrote: > >> On 5/3/19 12:25 PM, Tom H wrote: > >>> > >>> You then have to use "grub2-install" with "--target=i386-pc" for > >>> csm and "--target=x86_64-efi" for

Re: How do I generate grub for legacy?

2019-05-04 Thread Tom H
On Sat, May 4, 2019 at 8:20 AM Samuel Sieb wrote: > > On 5/3/19 2:30 PM, Tom H wrote: >> >> But on F30, if you set "GRUB_ENABLE_BLSCFG=true" in >> "/etc/default/grub" and run "grub2-mkconfig -o >> /boot/grub2/grub.cfg", the latter'll be generic and blscfg'll build >> a menu from

Re: How do I generate grub for legacy?

2019-05-04 Thread Tom H
On Sat, May 4, 2019 at 2:27 AM ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > On 5/3/19 2:30 PM, Tom H wrote: >> On Fri, May 3, 2019 at 9:52 PM Samuel Sieb wrote: >>> On 5/3/19 12:25 PM, Tom H wrote: You then have to use "grub2-install" with "--target=i386-pc" for csm and "--target=x86_64-efi"

Re: How do I generate grub for legacy?

2019-05-04 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 5/4/19 3:47 AM, Tom H wrote: On Sat, May 4, 2019 at 1:05 AM Samuel Sieb wrote: On 5/3/19 2:30 PM, Tom H wrote: On Fri, May 3, 2019 at 9:52 PM Samuel Sieb wrote: On 5/3/19 12:25 PM, Tom H wrote: You then have to use "grub2-install" with "--target=i386-pc" for csm and

Re: How do I generate grub for legacy?

2019-05-04 Thread Tom H
On Sat, May 4, 2019 at 1:05 AM Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 5/3/19 2:30 PM, Tom H wrote: >> On Fri, May 3, 2019 at 9:52 PM Samuel Sieb wrote: >>> On 5/3/19 12:25 PM, Tom H wrote: You then have to use "grub2-install" with "--target=i386-pc" for csm and "--target=x86_64-efi" for efi. >>>

Re: How do I generate grub for legacy?

2019-05-04 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 5/3/19 11:17 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 5/3/19 6:28 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: What do you mean by? change linuxefi > linux16,initrdefi > initrd16* "linuxefi" does not exist in grub.cfg.  Neither does linux16 or initrdefi The EFI grub.cfg should have linuxefi and initrdefi lines. 

Re: How do I generate grub for legacy?

2019-05-04 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 5/3/19 2:30 PM, Tom H wrote: But on F30, if you set "GRUB_ENABLE_BLSCFG=true" in "/etc/default/grub" and run "grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg", the latter'll be generic and blscfg'll build a menu from "/boot/loader/entries/*.conf" at boot, whether booting from csm or efi. This is

Re: How do I generate grub for legacy?

2019-05-04 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 5/3/19 6:28 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: What do you mean by? change linuxefi > linux16,initrdefi > initrd16* "linuxefi" does not exist in grub.cfg.  Neither does linux16 or initrdefi The EFI grub.cfg should have linuxefi and initrdefi lines. Or in the BLS files if that's enabled.

Re: How do I generate grub for legacy?

2019-05-03 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 5/3/19 10:50 AM, ja wrote: On Fri, 2019-05-03 at 09:41 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 5/3/19 1:30 AM, Todd Chester via users wrote: On 5/2/19 10:24 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 5/2/19 8:23 PM, Todd Chester via users wrote: On 5/2/19 5:40 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 5/1/19 2:48 PM, ToddAndMargo

Re: How do I generate grub for legacy?

2019-05-03 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 5/3/19 2:30 PM, Tom H wrote: On Fri, May 3, 2019 at 9:52 PM Samuel Sieb wrote: On 5/3/19 12:25 PM, Tom H wrote: You then have to use "grub2-install" with "--target=i386-pc" for csm and "--target=x86_64-efi" for efi. He mentioned that originally, but that's not where the problem is. He's

Re: How do I generate grub for legacy?

2019-05-03 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 5/3/19 2:30 PM, Tom H wrote: On Fri, May 3, 2019 at 9:52 PM Samuel Sieb wrote: On 5/3/19 12:25 PM, Tom H wrote: You then have to use "grub2-install" with "--target=i386-pc" for csm and "--target=x86_64-efi" for efi. He mentioned that originally, but that's not where the problem is. He's

Re: How do I generate grub for legacy?

2019-05-03 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 5/3/19 2:30 PM, Tom H wrote: But on F30, if you set "GRUB_ENABLE_BLSCFG=true" in "/etc/default/grub" and run "grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg", the latter'll be generic and blscfg'll build a menu from "/boot/loader/entries/*.conf" at boot, whether booting from csm or efi. This is

Re: How do I generate grub for legacy?

2019-05-03 Thread Tom H
On Fri, May 3, 2019 at 9:52 PM Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 5/3/19 12:25 PM, Tom H wrote: >> >> You then have to use "grub2-install" with "--target=i386-pc" for >> csm and "--target=x86_64-efi" for efi. > > He mentioned that originally, but that's not where the problem is. > He's trying to create a

Re: How do I generate grub for legacy?

2019-05-03 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 5/3/19 12:52 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: I don't see any flags for grub2-mkconfig that can indicate which type to create. If I get time, I am going to RFE that. And it would help if I do it myself first and can show them the code ___ users mailing

Re: How do I generate grub for legacy?

2019-05-03 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 5/3/19 12:25 PM, Tom H wrote: grub2-efi-x64 and grub2-efi-x64-modules grub2-pc and grub2-pc-modules Did that You then have to use "grub2-install" with "--target=i386-pc" for csm and "--target=x86_64-efi" for efi. "grub2-mkconfig checks and over rules you now and creates a grub.cfg

Re: How do I generate grub for legacy?

2019-05-03 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 5/3/19 9:41 AM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 5/3/19 1:30 AM, Todd Chester via users wrote: On 5/2/19 10:24 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 5/2/19 8:23 PM, Todd Chester via users wrote: On 5/2/19 5:40 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 5/1/19 2:48 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: Remaking grub.cfg, I get    

Re: How do I generate grub for legacy?

2019-05-03 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 5/3/19 12:25 PM, Tom H wrote: You then have to use "grub2-install" with "--target=i386-pc" for csm and "--target=x86_64-efi" for efi. He mentioned that originally, but that's not where the problem is. He's trying to create a grub.cfg file for legacy, but I don't see any flags for

Re: How do I generate grub for legacy?

2019-05-03 Thread Tom H
On Fri, May 3, 2019 at 6:43 PM Samuel Sieb wrote: > > That's why I asked the previous question which you answered wrong. > You are trying to create a legacy grub config while booted in EFI > mode. That is not likely going to work. You could try booting a > netinst image in legacy mode using the

Re: How do I generate grub for legacy?

2019-05-03 Thread ja
On Fri, 2019-05-03 at 09:41 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 5/3/19 1:30 AM, Todd Chester via users wrote: > > On 5/2/19 10:24 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: > > > On 5/2/19 8:23 PM, Todd Chester via users wrote: > > > > On 5/2/19 5:40 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: > > > > > On 5/1/19 2:48 PM, ToddAndMargo via

Re: How do I generate grub for legacy?

2019-05-03 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 5/3/19 1:30 AM, Todd Chester via users wrote: On 5/2/19 10:24 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 5/2/19 8:23 PM, Todd Chester via users wrote: On 5/2/19 5:40 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 5/1/19 2:48 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: Remaking grub.cfg, I get     # grub2-mkconfig -o

Re: How do I generate grub for legacy?

2019-05-03 Thread Todd Chester via users
On 5/2/19 10:24 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 5/2/19 8:23 PM, Todd Chester via users wrote: On 5/2/19 5:40 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 5/1/19 2:48 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: Remaking grub.cfg, I get     # grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg     Generating grub configuration file ...    

Re: How do I generate grub for legacy?

2019-05-02 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 5/2/19 8:23 PM, Todd Chester via users wrote: On 5/2/19 5:40 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 5/1/19 2:48 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: Remaking grub.cfg, I get     # grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg     Generating grub configuration file ...     Adding boot menu entry for EFI firmware

Re: How do I generate grub for legacy?

2019-05-02 Thread Todd Chester via users
On 5/2/19 5:40 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 5/1/19 2:48 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: Remaking grub.cfg, I get     # grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg     Generating grub configuration file ...     Adding boot menu entry for EFI firmware configuration     done Uh.. I wanted

Re: How do I generate grub for legacy?

2019-05-02 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 5/1/19 2:48 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: Remaking grub.cfg, I get    # grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg    Generating grub configuration file ...    Adding boot menu entry for EFI firmware configuration    done Uh.. I wanted legacy, not EFI. What am I missing? Are you

Re: How do I generate grub for legacy?

2019-05-02 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 5/1/19 2:48 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: Hi All, I have a Fedora 30 flash drive set up for dual booting from Legacy or UEFI.  It boots beautifully from UEFI. (It also have a bios_grub partition). It booted perfectly from both under Fedora 29. Now when booting from legacy, it go into

How do I generate grub for legacy?

2019-05-01 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
Hi All, I have a Fedora 30 flash drive set up for dual booting from Legacy or UEFI. It boots beautifully from UEFI. (It also have a bios_grub partition). It booted perfectly from both under Fedora 29. Now when booting from legacy, it go into "System Setup". If you press system Setup, I get a