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On 09/05/14 09:04, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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>On Thu, 4 Sep 2014 21:46:14 -0600, Joseph wrote: |
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>> >You need to mount /boot, and mount the EFI boot partition before |
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>> >installing grub2 using `grub2-install --target=x86_64-efi`. |
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>> How do I mount EFI boot partition? |
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>> Is it the /dev/sda1 2M |
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>That's the BIOS compatibility partition. There appears to be some |
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>confusion here, does your hardware use EFI or is it traditional BIOS. The |
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>approaches are very different and all of the advice in this thread s for |
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>EFI but your previous posts made no mention of it. |
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>Neil Bothwick |
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>Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is 100%. |
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My BIOS if from 1998 I think so it is not EFI. |
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I don't think I'm suppose to be doing this EFI. |
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"...UEFI (~EFI) is a firmware interface that is widespread on recent computers, especially those more recent than 2010. It is intended to replace the traditional |
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BIOS firmware interface that is prevalent on earlier machines. " |
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So think I should scrap the partition sda1 and sda2 and combine them into one partition and install grub (not grub2). |
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