On Sat, 12 Dec 2020 01:57:40 -0700, Dan Egli wrote:

> What complexity?

GRUB2 is hugely complex as it tries to be everything to everyone. That's
not a bad thing in itself, but EFI can use a far more minimal setup.

> I have a couple EFI machines booting via Grub, and
> they work great.

I didn't say it didn't work, but it is overkill for EFI booting where a
bootloader isn't needed.

> I just had to ensure the correct GRUB_TARGET in
> make.conf and then after I had my partitions setup and formatted, I
> just did grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot/EFI and
> it went smooth as silk as long as I didn't have /boot on newer ZFS
> setup. Even ZFS would work if you setup /boot to be a separate dataset
> and make it with absolute minimal options.
> 
> On 12/12/2020 1:31 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > On Fri, 11 Dec 2020 07:48:06 -0700, thelma@sys-concept.com wrote:
> >  
> >> I use refine as boot loader but it is giving me a problems.
> >> How to switch back to grub 2
> >> And remove any refine files from /boot  
> > I take it you mean refind? It may well be easier to solve the problem
> > with refind rather than trying to deal with the overcomplexity of GRUB
> > for an EFI system.
> >
> > I normally use systemd-boot but when I have used refind, it has
> > picked up everything it needs to know without a config file. What
> > errors are you seeing?
> >
> >  




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