Re: [gentoo-dev] grub-2 configuration

[Joakim Tjernlund]

On Thu, 2016-10-20 at 11:03 -0400, Tom H wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 4:43 PM, Joakim Tjernlund
> <Joakim.Tjernlund@××××××××.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, 2016-10-19 at 15:21 -0400, Tom H wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > but it looks like, unlike for grub-legacy, you need a grub config file
> > > ("/boot/grub{,2}/grub.cfg") to exist.
> >
> > That is reasonable, to create a new entry one needs to copy the previous and replace the
> > kernel.
> >
> > Would be nice if someone could confirm this though.
>
> if [[ -z "${GRUB_CONF}" ]]; then
> print_error 1 "Error! Grub2 configuration file does not exist, please
> ensure grub2 is correctly setup first."
> return 0
> fi


Tried to make grub2 and EFI work on a HP Skylake laptop but failed. This laptop PXE boots linux
during install in BIOS mode so no EFI vars etc. available when installing grub2.
Is this an impossible combo? Do I need to EFI boot in order to install grub2 efi?

 Jocke