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Re: Using a master grub2 in UEFI
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Andrei Borzenkov |
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Re: Using a master grub2 in UEFI |
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Sun, 29 Mar 2015 15:54:06 +0300 |
В Sun, 29 Mar 2015 11:36:33 +0100
Barry Jackson <address@hidden> пишет:
> On 29/03/15 09:24, Andrei Borzenkov wrote:
> > В Sat, 28 Mar 2015 23:27:23 +0000
> > Barry Jackson <address@hidden> пишет:
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> >> How can I stop this happening?
> >>
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> > Currently you can't. Drop a mail to grub-devel with good use case for
> > it. Workaround is to use --efidir=/tmp (or any other directory).
> >
> Thanks Andrei,
> I tried various directories but all error:
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> address@hidden baz]# grub2-install --efi-directory=/tmp
> Installing for x86_64-efi platform.
> grub2-install: error: failed to get canonical path of `tmpfs'.
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> address@hidden baz]# grub2-install --efi-directory=/dev/null
> Installing for x86_64-efi platform.
> grub2-install: error: failed to get canonical path of `devtmpfs'.
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Yes, that's right, it does not like pseudo filesystems.
> address@hidden baz]# grub2-install --efi-directory=/home/baz
> Installing for x86_64-efi platform.
> grub2-install: error: /home/baz doesn't look like an EFI partition.
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Indeed, it insists that efidir must be on FAT. Sorry, no idea short of
faking FAT partition, may be via loop.