From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 63BC01382C5 for ; Fri, 25 Dec 2020 16:41:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 721162BC018; Fri, 25 Dec 2020 16:41:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pmta31.teksavvy.com (pmta31.teksavvy.com [76.10.157.38]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 25C132BC005 for ; Fri, 25 Dec 2020 16:41:16 +0000 (UTC) IronPort-SDR: cvxrVG4MqWscLHz+b2sATZETL3xmWWM8dsJWcYJmtwMvsXC+jR1LSXUgCZKsisQg/iKxITli6m ao0amCzNsDmQ== X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: =?us-ascii?q?A2G1CgBCFeZf/yHkSC1igQkHgUgCg3Z?= =?us-ascii?q?hiHOEUIYQnFOBfAsBAQEBAQEBAQEcGQECBAEBhEQEAgKBdCY2Bw4CAwEBCwE?= =?us-ascii?q?BAQUBAQEBAQYEAgKGWkMBDAGGAAY6HDMLNBIQRxmGLa9WgTSFWIR7gTgBjSh?= =?us-ascii?q?BP4ECP4N1NT6FC4UrBINQgW1/LwKPIo0Jm1EKgnaBGAaaXJMOj0K3RAiCA30?= =?us-ascii?q?IgyRQGQ1XjVYXjkQmMDcCBgoBAQMJVwGDFYtEAQE?= X-IPAS-Result: =?us-ascii?q?A2G1CgBCFeZf/yHkSC1igQkHgUgCg3ZhiHOEUIYQnFOBf?= =?us-ascii?q?AsBAQEBAQEBAQEcGQECBAEBhEQEAgKBdCY2Bw4CAwEBCwEBAQUBAQEBAQYEA?= =?us-ascii?q?gKGWkMBDAGGAAY6HDMLNBIQRxmGLa9WgTSFWIR7gTgBjShBP4ECP4N1NT6FC?= =?us-ascii?q?4UrBINQgW1/LwKPIo0Jm1EKgnaBGAaaXJMOj0K3RAiCA30IgyRQGQ1XjVYXj?= =?us-ascii?q?kQmMDcCBgoBAQMJVwGDFYtEAQE?= X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.78,448,1599537600"; d="scan'208";a="151281136" Received: from 45-72-228-33.cpe.teksavvy.com (HELO waltdnes.org) ([45.72.228.33]) by smtp13.teksavvy.com with SMTP; 25 Dec 2020 11:41:14 -0500 Received: by waltdnes.org (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Fri, 25 Dec 2020 11:41:03 -0500 From: "Walter Dnes" Date: Fri, 25 Dec 2020 11:41:03 -0500 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is a USB-key-to-hard-drive-tap-dance-boot possible? Message-ID: References: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Archives-Salt: 89ad6ee8-fe46-45b8-8a6b-ef4fb2d08fda X-Archives-Hash: ac5083f4f27d82ba6d287bfd60a46a33 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 I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications