Re: GRUB on EFI:

[Mads Kiilerich]

> Giovanni Mascellani <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > Hi everyone.
> >
> > I'm trying to run GRUB on my new EFI-based laptop. Unfortunately I'm
> > running into a few problems. I'm using GRUB 2.00 downloaded using:
> >
> > wget ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/grub/grub-2.00.tar.gz
> >
> > Configured with:
> >
> > ./configure --with-platform=efi --target=x86_64 --program-prefix=""
> >
> > And built with:
> >
> > make
> >
> > (these operations are ran over a computer other than the one I'm trying
> > to boot, of course; anyway, they're both Debian installations, 64 bits).
> >
> > Then I create the GRUB EFI image with:
> >
> > cd grub-core
> > ../grub-mkimage -o grub.efi -O x86_64-efi -p '' -d . part_gpt ext2 fat
> > configfile part_msdos linux boot multiboot chain

Unless you have a good reason and know what you are doing you should use 
grub-install (and grub-mkconfig). Does that not work for you?

> > and copy it on a USB stick (MS-DOS partition table, FAT partition),
> > putting it in the directory /efi/boot/bootx64.efi.

If you really want it as default boot loader then use grub-install 
--removable .

/Mads