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On Saturday 09 Apr 2016 08:22:16 Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On 9 April 2016 06:43:50 BST, peter@××××××××××××.uk wrote: |
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> > Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote : |
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> > > On Fri, 8 Apr 2016 13:26:31 -0400, Poison BL. wrote: |
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> > > > --> /boot/efi/boot/bootx64.efi |
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> > > > This one is what your UEFI's loading at boot. The lack of any |
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> > other |
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> > > > files in /boot/efi/boot/ makes me suspect Grub's not actually |
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> > > > installed in quite the right spot for the UEFI layer to load it. |
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As long as the correct kernel was saved as /boot/efi/boot/bootx64.efi, or the |
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MoBo set up to boot from /boot/efi/boot/my_NVMe_kernel_x64.efi, you shouldn't |
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have a problem booting up using the EFI boot stub. |
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https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/efi-stub.txt |
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> > If |
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> > > > you pointed grub2-install at the right place (the second command |
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> > line |
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> > > > at [1]), I believe you should have grubx64.efi there as well. |
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> > > Did you build GRUB with GRUB_PLATFORMS="efi-64"? |
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> > Yes, as instructed in the wiki. |
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> > > As you're using EFI, you may find life easier if you dispense with |
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> > GRUB |
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> > > and use Gummiboot. I find it (or the systemd version) far more |
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> > friendly. |
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> > Maybe I should give it a go - thanks for the idea. I did consider it |
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> > but then I was deterred by its description as "minimalistic". |
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> The usual complaint about GRUB2 is that it is too complex, so minimal is |
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> good here. I only have it installed to be able to boot my System Rescue |
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> ISO in an emergency, I've not found a way to go that without GRUB. |
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I have used GRUB2 to boot ISO images from USB drives and internal drives |
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without problem, but Gummiboot is less fiddly to set up. With GRUB2 you need |
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to pay attention in setting the path to the ISO correctly, or GRUB2 will error |
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out of course. |
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Unfortunately, you can't boot an ISO in true minimalist fashion just by |
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pointing to it with the EFI boot stub (the ISO needs to be mounted via a |
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loopback function). |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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