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Author: Steve Litt
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] EFI Installation of Beowulf?

On Wed, 24 Feb 2021 15:42:22 -0800
Justin The Cynical <cynical@???> wrote:


> > the line "Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported..."
>
> I ran into this upgrading one of my EFI machines to the latest
> bewolf, it would only boot to the grub prompt.
>
> I can't remember the exact steps I did to determine the cause, but it
> ended up being that the EFI 'loader' was looking for the EFI grub.cfg
> in EFI/debian, and not devuan.
>
> My fix was to create a directory named debian under the EFI directory
> and copy the files from devuan into debian. This got the system
> booting normally again, I just had not had a chance to dig in any
> deeper and post a possible bug report.


Why not create a hard link between EFI/debian and EFI/devuan ?

SteveT

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