From: "Walter Dnes" <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is a USB-key-to-hard-drive-tap-dance-boot possible?
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 2020 11:41:03 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <X+YWHwnKIxnzQDtb@waltdnes.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bf8a20f8-4b36-2c47-0d10-1320f441af26@newideatest.site>
On Thu, Dec 24, 2020 at 03:49:35PM -0700, Dan Egli wrote
> I see your problem, I think. You don't have your ESP mounted, so
> grub can't write the EFI files to it. You are likely trying to use
> grub with grub-install /dev/sda. That won't work for EFI.
>
> mkdir /boot/efi
> mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /boot/efi
> grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot/efi
> grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
>
> you MAY need to add --removable to the grub-install line. Some EFI
> setups prefer that.
I have this sinking feeling in my stomach that I need to blow away
the install (after scp'ing config files to my desktop) and start over.
There is no room for another partition. Apparently, using fdisk (like I
did) to partition a GPT system is begging for problems down the road.
After 20 years on linux, I've been reduced to a newbie. BIOS boot,
Lilo, and fdisk served me well for 2 decades. Now I'm going to have to
learn UEFI, grub, and parted all at once. I'll start a new thread
tomorrow once I have my config files copied off. Then I'll install UEFI
mode properly.
--
Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>
I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-12-25 16:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-12-23 4:05 [gentoo-user] Is a USB-key-to-hard-drive-tap-dance-boot possible? Walter Dnes
2020-12-23 4:16 ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2020-12-23 5:37 ` Walter Dnes
2020-12-23 12:44 ` Michael
2020-12-24 22:49 ` Dan Egli
2020-12-25 16:41 ` Walter Dnes [this message]
2020-12-25 18:24 ` Neil Bothwick
2020-12-27 1:07 ` antlists
2020-12-27 2:01 ` Dale
2020-12-27 4:21 ` [gentoo-user] " Thomas Mueller
2020-12-27 9:45 ` [gentoo-user] " Neil Bothwick
2020-12-25 18:45 ` Jorge Almeida
2020-12-25 19:17 ` Walter Dnes
2020-12-25 19:32 ` Jorge Almeida
2020-12-25 20:55 ` Walter Dnes
2020-12-25 21:01 ` Jorge Almeida
2020-12-25 21:04 ` Jorge Almeida
2020-12-25 21:07 ` Neil Bothwick
2020-12-25 22:38 ` Dale
2020-12-25 23:02 ` Neil Bothwick
2020-12-25 23:15 ` Dale
2020-12-25 22:24 ` Peter Humphrey
2020-12-26 19:33 ` Dan Egli
2020-12-23 12:46 ` [gentoo-user] " Neil Bothwick
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