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Author: aitor
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] EFI boot not found, partially solved in gnuinos (Was: 1st boot failed but repaired OK)


En 22 de diciembre de 2021 14:55:41 ". fsmithred via Dng"
<dng@???> escribió:

> On 12/21/21, aitor <aitor_czr@???> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 21/12/21 19:55, aitor wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Ralph,
>>>
>>> On 21/12/21 12:19, Ralph Ronnquist via Dng wrote:
>>>> On Tue, 21 Dec 2021 01:44:39 +0100
>>>> aitor<aitor_czr@???> wrote:
>>>>> ...
>>>>> The outcome is that i've been compelled to turn back the distributor
>>>>> to its default ID=devuan, and i'm rebuilding the images of gnuinos
>>>>> chimaera right now so that they will work properly in UEFI mode
>>>>> without workarounds during the first boot on the part of users.
>>>>>
>>>>> I wonder, to this regard, what is the trick in Devuan to put in place
>>>>> the distributor ID without the need of hijacking the boot loader...
>>>> ... doesn't "scripts/magic-touch" tell the story?
>>> Looking at the script, it seems that i must define a new variable:
>>> GNUINOSCFG=/target/boot/efi/EFI/gnuinos/grub.cfg
>>> and copy the content to $DEBIANCFG in the same way you're doing with
>>> $DEVUANCFG.
>>> Yes, it seems the way to go...
>>>
>>> I'll tell you, thanks!
>>
>> Oops, I knew about the --efi-directory argument for grub-install, which
>> defines the
>> root partition of the EFI system, but there is also another one that i was
>> overlooking
>> up till now:
>>
>> --bootloader-id=ID
>>
>> I found it looking at the code of grub-install.c in grub2. The value of this
>> argument has
>> preference over the value defined in os-release.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Aitor.
>
> Another way to fix it in the installed system is to remove
> grub-efi-amd64-signed if you don't use Secure Boot. Then you don't
> need /boot/efi/EFI/debian.


I haven't any computer to hand right now, but i think that
EFI/debian/bootx64.efi is provided by grub-efi-amd64, and the rest of the
files by grub-efi-amd64-signed.

Cheers,

Aitor.


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