[gentoo-user] Problem with "GRUB upgrades" news item

[gentoo-user] Problem with "GRUB upgrades" news item

[Walter Dnes]

  I've got a UEFI system.  According to the news item...

> Re-runing grub-install both with and without the --removable option
> should ensure a working GRUB installation.

  I tried that...

[i3][root][~] grub-install
Installing for x86_64-efi platform.
grub-install: error: cannot find EFI directory.
[i3][root][~] grub-install --removable
Installing for x86_64-efi platform.
grub-install: error: cannot find EFI directory.

  Oops!  My EFI directory...

[i3][root][~] ll /boot/EFI/
total 2
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root  512 Jun 11  2021 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 1024 Dec 31  1969 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  512 Jun 11  2021 gentoo

  Any ideas?

-- 
Roses are red
Roses are blue
Depending on their velocity
Relative to you

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with "GRUB upgrades" news item

[Dale]

[-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 1111 bytes --]

Walter Dnes wrote:
>   I've got a UEFI system.  According to the news item...
>
>> Re-runing grub-install both with and without the --removable option
>> should ensure a working GRUB installation.
>   I tried that...
>
> [i3][root][~] grub-install
> Installing for x86_64-efi platform.
> grub-install: error: cannot find EFI directory.
> [i3][root][~] grub-install --removable
> Installing for x86_64-efi platform.
> grub-install: error: cannot find EFI directory.
>
>   Oops!  My EFI directory...
>
> [i3][root][~] ll /boot/EFI/
> total 2
> drwxr-xr-x 3 root root  512 Jun 11  2021 .
> drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 1024 Dec 31  1969 ..
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  512 Jun 11  2021 gentoo
>
>   Any ideas?
>


I don't use EFI but I read on this the other day when I was working my
way through this news item.  Here is a link.

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GRUB#Installing_GRUB_for_EFI

If you followed the docs for installing grub with EFI, you need to point
it to the location of the efi directory.  The command might look like
this.  |

grub-install --efi-directory=/efi 

Hope that helps. 

Dale

:-)  :-) 
|

[-- Attachment #2: Type: text/html, Size: 1853 bytes --]

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with "GRUB upgrades" news item

[William Kenworthy]

[-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 1306 bytes --]

Is your efi fat32 formatted? (required)

This usually means its another partition mounted to /boot/EFI

BillK


On 6/3/24 14:02, Dale wrote:
> Walter Dnes wrote:
>>    I've got a UEFI system.  According to the news item...
>>
>>> Re-runing grub-install both with and without the --removable option
>>> should ensure a working GRUB installation.
>>    I tried that...
>>
>> [i3][root][~] grub-install
>> Installing for x86_64-efi platform.
>> grub-install: error: cannot find EFI directory.
>> [i3][root][~] grub-install --removable
>> Installing for x86_64-efi platform.
>> grub-install: error: cannot find EFI directory.
>>
>>    Oops!  My EFI directory...
>>
>> [i3][root][~] ll /boot/EFI/
>> total 2
>> drwxr-xr-x 3 root root  512 Jun 11  2021 .
>> drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 1024 Dec 31  1969 ..
>> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  512 Jun 11  2021 gentoo
>>
>>    Any ideas?
>>
>
>
> I don't use EFI but I read on this the other day when I was working my 
> way through this news item.  Here is a link.
>
> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GRUB#Installing_GRUB_for_EFI
>
> If you followed the docs for installing grub with EFI, you need to 
> point it to the location of the efi directory.  The command might look 
> like this. |
>
> grub-install --efi-directory=/efi
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> Dale
>
> :-)  :-)
> | 

[-- Attachment #2: Type: text/html, Size: 2352 bytes --]

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with "GRUB upgrades" news item

[Arve Barsnes]

On Wed, 6 Mar 2024 at 07:02, Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:
> If you followed the docs for installing grub with EFI, you need to point it to the location of the efi directory.  The command might look like this.
>
> grub-install --efi-directory=/efi
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> Dale

Specifically in your case, Walter, that would be --efi-directory=/boot

Regards,
Arve

[gentoo-user] [SOLVED] Problem with "GRUB upgrades" news item

[Walter Dnes]

On Wed, Mar 06, 2024 at 07:45:40AM +0100, Arve Barsnes wrote
> 
> Specifically in your case, Walter, that would be --efi-directory=/boot

  Thank you very much.  A screen capture...

[i3][root][~] grub-install --efi-directory=/boot
Installing for x86_64-efi platform.
Installation finished. No error reported.
[i3][root][~] grub-install --efi-directory=/boot --removable
Installing for x86_64-efi platform.
Installation finished. No error reported.

-- 
Roses are red
Roses are blue
Depending on their velocity
Relative to you

[gentoo-user] Re: Problem with "GRUB upgrades" news item

[Grant Edwards]

On 2024-03-06, Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org> wrote:
>   I've got a UEFI system.  According to the news item...
>
>> Re-runing grub-install both with and without the --removable option
>> should ensure a working GRUB installation.
>
>   I tried that...
>
> [i3][root][~] grub-install

I believe you have to run grub-install using all the same options you
did originally. AFAICT, grub doesn't remember what you did the last
time.