Hey, On Fri, Sep 01, 2023 at 11:53:28PM -0500, Oskari Pirhonen wrote: > Hi, > > Recently me and a few others were helping someone in #gentoo on > libera.chat with their Gentoo install. Things were going smoothly up > until rebooting into the fresh installation. Instead of getting GRUB, it > kept booting straight into the UEFI menu. After scratching our heads a > bit, we tried `grub-install --efi-directory=/boot --removable` which > worked. (The default Gentoo installation, if you go by the Handbook, > sets up /boot as the ESP) > > I have GRUB installed the "normal way", but I just tried it with that > and it seems to work for me. My machine is a ThinkPad T14 Gen 1 (AMD > version). I don't know what machine the person we were helping with has, > but both use the x86_64-efi target. > > Is there a reason `--removable` is not the default behavior? Maybe I'm > missing something, but IMO it would provide a better user experience to > not have to go through the headache of having to figure out that it is > `--removable` which was holding you back.
If you take a look at the util/grub-install.c file and look for "removable" variable and take a look at the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) Specification, 3.5.1.1 Removable Media Boot Behavior chapter then it should appear clear why it works in that way. Daniel _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
