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From: n952162 <n952162@web.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] grub-install: error: cannot find EFI directory [RESOLVED]
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2022 15:28:14 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ebc957cf-cc14-4ca2-7324-232a7b06dab3@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ae1ad4e6-7b51-0e84-f951-f699df4528ab@web.de>

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On 7/27/22 14:33, n952162 wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> has the default been changed from BIOS to EFI?
>
> Do I have to, e.g. set the platform USE flag and reinstall the humongous
> grub package or is there an option I can pass to grub-install?
>
>

Well, I discovered that this works:

*grub-install --target=i386-pc /dev/sda*

Although that is an UNDOCUMENTED option!  It's dropped from the --help menu.

I found it in the --help on an old system.

Amazing how these things just disappear.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-07-27 13:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-07-27 12:33 [gentoo-user] grub-install: error: cannot find EFI directory n952162
2022-07-27 13:00 ` n952162
2022-07-27 13:28 ` n952162 [this message]
2022-07-27 14:08   ` [gentoo-user] grub-install: error: cannot find EFI directory [RESOLVED] Arve Barsnes

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