Re: "not a valid root device" error in UEFI chainloader command

[Jake Thomas]

I had a nearly identical problem yesterday trying to chainload Apple's boot.efi 
file.

As Mr. Murphy pointed out (in another thread), the problem was caused by me 
having a hybrid GPT/MBR setup. Simply changing it back to pure GPT fixed the 
problem. Kudos to Mr. Murphy.

sudo gdisk /dev/sda

x //Enters the Expert menu

n //Creates a new protective MBR

w //Writes - actually does it


Now I can chainload Apple's boot.efi file just fine without the error
"not a valid root device".

The long, long, complex menuentry generated by grub-mkconfig to boot
Mac OS X still doesn't work.

What's weird is that I used to be able to chainload boot.efi with a
hybrid setup no problem. But after updating my Grub efi image (made
from Grub compiled from source from bzr a couple days ago), I got the
error.

Why would it no longer be able to load the efi image off a hybrid
disk? It makes no sense to me because it can still see and read the
file (ls command) off one.

That using the "(${root})" syntax works (for you, I never tried it) makes it 
kinda look like a bug.

Cheers,
Jake

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