On Tue, 22 Dec 2020 23:05:28 -0500, Walter Dnes wrote:

>   Situation; I have a Dell XPS8940 with that abomination known as UEFI,
> and no "legacy boot".  UEFI claims there are no bootable partitions on
> the hard drive (/dev/sda).

Have you set up a partition of type EFI System (EF00)? This Dell XPS
laptop boots perfectly from a UEFI system partition with no need for GRUB.


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