Re: can I configure grubx64.efi to look in the same directory as itself, or must it have an explicit prefix & root?

[Avi Deitcher]

I didn't know you could do that! :-)

Thanks again.

On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 6:47 AM, Andrei Borzenkov <address@hidden>
wrote:

> 11.10.2016 06:45, Avi Deitcher пишет:
> > Thanks Andrei. grub-mkimage complains if I do not pass it --prefix. Am I
> > misunderstanding it? Or is there some value for --prefix that means "no
> > prefix"?
> >
>
> Ah, right, just use empty prefix (--prefix="").
>
> > On Tuesday, October 11, 2016, Andrei Borzenkov <address@hidden>
> wrote:
> >
> >> 10.10.2016 21:45, Avi Deitcher пишет:
> >>> I am doing a manual EFI build with grub-mkimage. If I change the
> drives,
> >> or
> >>> uuid or labels on my /boot partition, normally I would rerun
> grub-mkimage
> >>> and change the --prefix or --config setting to include an updated
> >>> search.fs_uuid or search.fs_label
> >>>
> >>> Is it possible to build the image such that I will not have to rerun
> >>> grub-mkimage? Can I include those in a stub grub.cfg colocated in the
> >> same
> >>> partition and directory as grubx64.efi, and tell it to look next to it
> >> for
> >>> the grub.cfg, so that a change in drives/partitions/labels/uuids means
> >>> updating just the text grub.cfg and the image will continue to wor?
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >> Yes. On EFI prefix defaults to directory where image was loaded from.
> >> Just do not explicitly set any prefix in image.
> >>
> >>> It might be easier to change my stub grub.cfg, rerun grub-mkimage
> >>> --config=updated/grub.cfg and reinstall, but I would like to know if it
> >> is
> >>> an option?
> >>>
> >>> Thanks
> >>> Avi
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