On Sat, Oct 03, 2020 at 11:17:44AM +0200, Marius Schwarz wrote: > Am 02.10.20 um 11:12 schrieb Petr Pisar: > > On Thu, Oct 01, 2020 at 11:07:28AM -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > >> On 10/1/20 5:52 AM, Marius Schwarz wrote: > >>>> Is it possible to boot from the stick and then perform a grub-install > >>>> with an old grub? > >>>> > >>> This attempt failed too: > >>> > >>> # grub2-install /dev/sda > >>> grub2-install: Fehler: /usr/lib/grub/x86_64-efi/modinfo.sh existiert > >>> nicht. Bitte geben Sie --target oder --directory an. > >>> > >>> and that file seems not to be part of any package. There is only one for > >>> "i386-pc". > >> You can't (and must not!) use grub2-install on an EFI system. > > Of course you have. How else would you get GRUB EFI executable onto the boot > > partition and register it into boot environments? > > > > But the correct invocation for EFI systems is different. You just use > > "grub2-install" without the disk device name. > If you do not state the devicename, how does grub choose the correct > drive? I don't want to overwrite the bootloader on the ssd.
There is only one correct ESP partition in EFI system to install bootloader to. You can read the code finding it at https://github.com/rhboot/grub2/blob/master/util/grub-install.c#L1029 -- Tomasz Torcz “Funeral in the morning, IDE hacking to...@pipebreaker.pl in the afternoon and evening.” - Alan Cox _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
