[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?

[Dale]

Post by 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?

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

:-)  :-) 
|

[William Kenworthy]

Is your efi fat32 formatted? (required)

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

BillK

Post by Dale

Post by 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?

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
:-)  :-)
|

[Arve Barsnes]

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

[Walter Dnes]

Post by Arve Barsnes
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.

[Grant Edwards]

Post by 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

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.