On Tue, Mar 10, 2026 at 6:45 PM Steve McIntyre <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 10, 2026 at 01:23:28PM -0500, Carl Karsten wrote: > >my guess is I needed: > >\EFI\boot\bootx64.efi > >qemu... no change > > > >just to be sure, I put it everwhere: > > > >$ find /tmp/mk_hd_grub/img -iname *.efi > >/tmp/mk_hd_grub/img/bootnetx64.efi > >/tmp/mk_hd_grub/img/boot/grub/grubx64.efi > >/tmp/mk_hd_grub/img/boot/grub/bootx64.efi > >/tmp/mk_hd_grub/img/boot/grubx64.efi > >/tmp/mk_hd_grub/img/boot/bootx64.efi > >/tmp/mk_hd_grub/img/EFI/BOOT/grubx64.efi > >/tmp/mk_hd_grub/img/EFI/BOOT/bootx64.efi > >/tmp/mk_hd_grub/img/EFI/grubx64.efi > >/tmp/mk_hd_grub/img/EFI/bootx64.efi > >/tmp/mk_hd_grub/img/grubx64.efi > >/tmp/mk_hd_grub/img/bootx64.efi > > What partition layout and filesystem type do you have there? UEFI > wants the EFI system partition to be FAT, and ideally tagged as type > EF on an MBR scheme or EF00 on GPT. > > I would expect efi-image and gen-hd-image is doing the right thing: https://salsa.debian.org/carlfk-guest/debian-installer/-/blob/hd-grub/build/util/mk_hd_grub.sh#L39-47 sfdisk --dump ${img_name} label: dos label-id: 0x69b05fcf device: /tmp/mk_hd_grub/hd-grub.img unit: sectors sector-size: 512 /tmp/mk_hd_grub/hd-grub.img1 : start= 2048, size= 157952, type=c, bootable > >I need modules to boot the installer > >grubnetx64-installer.efi.signed has installer in the name, but I'm > guessing > >that isn't my problem, yet. > > Yeah, see when you get a bit further. :-) > > -- > Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. > [email protected] > You raise the blade, you make the change... You re-arrange me 'til I'm > sane... > > -- Carl K
