On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 1:23 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger <li...@xunil.at> wrote: > On 28.01.2015 01:36, Neil Bothwick wrote: >> On Wed, 28 Jan 2015 00:40:32 +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: >>>> >>>> No need for chainloading with UEFI. Set Gummiboot as the >>>> default boot option and hold down Esc (or whichever key your >>>> motherboard uses, it would have been nice if UEFI had >>>> standardised that too) when booting if you want Grub instead >>> >>> So I would have to have grub-2.x and gummiboot installed in >>> parallel? Both as UEFI-"boot-entries", right? >> >> Yes. When I first tried Gummiboot, I left Grub as the default until >> I was happy with Gummiboot, then I changed the default with >> efibootmgr. > > And what is your partitioning and fstab? > > gummiboot wants all inside the ESP and this mounted at /boot: > > # grep boot /etc/fstab > UUID=E004-1D89 /boot vfat auto 1 2 > > The gentoo GRUB2 wiki tells me to mount that at /boot/efi ... > > And grub2 fails to install now (with or without --boot-directory): > > # grub2-install --target=x86_64-efi --boot-directory=/boot > Installing for x86_64-efi platform. > grub2-install: error: cannot find EFI directory.
Try to add '--efi-directory=/boot' to your grub-install invocation although I wonder whether grub-mkconfig will find your kernels and initramfs's if they aren't in the root of '/boot'.
