Hi Randy, My goal is to install grub2 in sdb1 that will work when secured boot is enabled. I don't have any restrictions on the files tree in /dev/sdb1. Can you please tell me what sequence I should use ? Especially the grub-install parameters.
I'm running the installation under knoppix 9.1 Thank you, Zvika On Fri, Jul 28, 2023 at 6:38 AM Randy Goldenberg <[email protected]> wrote: > > grub is typically installed in /boot, and the efi directory is > typically mounted at /boot/efi, which is where UEFI firmware looks for > the EFI executable to load. > > Following the same pattern, if grub is being installed in media/sdb1, > the efi directory would be /media/sdb1/efi. > > I don't know if this is relevant in your particular environment, nor > what your larger goal is, and have only an observation to offer. > > On Thu, Jul 27, 2023 at 7:18 PM Zvi Vered <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hi Randy, > > > > Thank you for your reply. > > > > Did you mean that the grub-install should be: > > grub-install --boot-directory=/media/sdb1/boot > > --efi-directory=/media/sdb1/boot --uefi-secure-boot ? > > This way, /media/sdb1 contains only the boot directory. > > boot directory contains 'ÉFI' and 'grub' > > > > After this install, grub is not booting at all (with and without secure > > boot) > > > > Thank you, > > Zvika > > > > On Fri, Jul 28, 2023 at 2:59 AM Randy Goldenberg > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > If the boot directory is /media/sdb1/boot, it seems odd for the efi > > > directory to be the parent directory, rather than > > > /media/sdb1/boot/efi. > > > > > > On Thu, Jul 27, 2023 at 12:54 PM Zvi Vered <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > > > I'm trying to install grub 2.x for secure boot . > > > > I did the following steps under knoppix 9.1 : > > > > > > > > mkfs.fat -F32 /dev/sdb1 > > > > mount -t vfat /dev/sdb1 /media/sdb1 > > > > apt-get install grub-efi-amd64-signed > > > > grub-install --boot-directory=/media/sdb1/boot > > > > --efi-directory=/media/sdb1 > > > > --uefi-secure-boot > > > > > > > > But when I selected this device in the boot menu I got the red message > > > > telling this partition contains unsecured code. > > > > > > > > Can you please advise how I should proceed? > > > > > > > > Thank you, > > > > Zvika
