Subj : uefi
To : Gerrit Kuehn
From : Benny Pedersen
Date : Sun May 22 2022 11:18 am
Hello Gerrit!
20 May 2022 13:01, Gerrit Kuehn wrote to Kai Richter:
KR>> I thought so too and i do have sda1 /boot/efi and sda3 /boot. But
KR>> /boot/efi is empty.
then efi is not installed with grub ?
GK> Is there an entry in fstab for it?
uefi cant read fstab
GK> Maybe it is just not mounted?
+1
GK> Otherwise, have a look at the output of gdisk (or a similar tool) to
GK> locate your efi partition.
+1
GK>>> The BIOS will detect the EFI parition and start what is available
GK>>> there.
KR>> Wouldn't that add a third place to manage boot partitions?
KR>> There is the boot priority list in the bios and the boot manager
KR>> grub.
both can use same data, if needed
GK> The BIOS lists the bootable EFI partitions it found. Mine typically
GK> look like this:
GK> -+-
GK> ~# l /boot/efi/EFI/BOOT/
GK> -rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 139264 May 5 18:55 BOOTX64.EFI
GK> -+-
if installed via grub
GK> This is the default naming scheme that should always work. For
GK> everything else, you might have to set up boot environment variables
GK> (usually, efibootmgr is your friend there).
good
Regards Benny
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