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On 12/25/2020 9:41 AM, Walter Dnes wrote: |
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> On Thu, Dec 24, 2020 at 03:49:35PM -0700, Dan Egli wrote |
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>> I see your problem, I think. You don't have your ESP mounted, so |
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>> grub can't write the EFI files to it. You are likely trying to use |
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>> grub with grub-install /dev/sda. That won't work for EFI. |
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>> mkdir /boot/efi |
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>> mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /boot/efi |
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>> grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot/efi |
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>> grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg |
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>> you MAY need to add --removable to the grub-install line. Some EFI |
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>> setups prefer that. |
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> I have this sinking feeling in my stomach that I need to blow away |
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> the install (after scp'ing config files to my desktop) and start over. |
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> There is no room for another partition. Apparently, using fdisk (like I |
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> did) to partition a GPT system is begging for problems down the road. |
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> After 20 years on linux, I've been reduced to a newbie. BIOS boot, |
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> Lilo, and fdisk served me well for 2 decades. Now I'm going to have to |
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> learn UEFI, grub, and parted all at once. I'll start a new thread |
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> tomorrow once I have my config files copied off. Then I'll install UEFI |
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> mode properly. |
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One thing you could try is using gparted to shrink the partition ever so |
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slightly. It doesn't need to be big at all. The standard windows EFI |
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partition is 100MB! That's it. It's not a matter of using FDisk, as I |
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did too. It's just a matter of remembering to make the partition. |
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Dan Egli |
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