On Monday, 6 April 2020 15:38:00 BST Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 6 Apr 2020 16:26:27 +0200, tu...@posteo.de wrote: > > Do I really need an image on an USBstick to boot into UEFI mode > > just to setup a system to boot into UEFI mode? > > Yes. The bootloader needs access to the EFI variables to set itself up > and those are only present when booting with EFI. > > You may also want to consider using something other than GRUB for EFI > booting. Either systemd-boot (this package is for non-systemd users, it > is already included with systemd) or reFind.
For completeness I mention here that with UEFI firmware on the MoBo you may not even need a boot manager at all. That's how I boot a number of UEFI systems here: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/EFI_stub_kernel
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