The bzr rev 2372 which unified grub-mkimage command has lead to a generated grub.efi not being portable. I have to use the following command to generate a working grub2.efi
./grub-mkimage -d . -o <EFI SYSTEM PARTITION>/efi/grub2/grub2.efi -O x86_64-efi -p /efi/grub2 <My_Long_List_of_modules> No efi based boot-loader I know of, stores hard-coded paths for its supporting files. Without the "-p /efi/grub2" parameter , the generated grub2.efi fails to load the /efi/grub2/grub.cfg menu and if the normal module is not included in the efi app, launches into the rescue console. Before the grub-mkimage change, no prefix parameter was needed while generating grub2.efi . The old grub2.efi file automatically determined the path from which it was launched and loaded the grub.cfg file successfully. Thus the old grub2.efi was portable as any path can be used to store the modules, grub2.efi, grub.cfg files and even if the folder was renamed, it would still work. The new grub2.efi needs a hard-coded prefix path to work properly. Please revert back this requirement alone (mainly for UEFI). I have one more feature request :- Is it possible to specify which config file should be read by grub instead of a hard-coded grub.cfg ? For example :- If I have a <EFI SYSTEM PARTITION>/efi/grub2/ folder with grub1.efi grub2.efi grub3.efi (each having different set of modules with normal and other basic modules included) etc., and I have grub.cfg grub5.cfg grub4.cfg, I want grub1.efi to use grub.cfg, grub2.efi to use grub5.cfg and grub3.efi to use grub4.cfg (the config file name can be user choice). One efi app should not load any other cfg file even if many cfg files are present in the prefix folder. I noticed an option of embedding a config file in grub-mkimage . Instead of embedding, I just want the generated image to load a different config file with a filename of my choice which can be specified as a parameter in grub-mkimage. Is this possible? This can also be an option for core.img of grub2 BIOS, but this option is more useful for UEFI where multiple grub efi apps can be created. Finally, just a matter of interest, what non-Apple UEFI (2.x spec, not 1.1 spec) systems do you guys use primarily for developing grub2 UEFI? Any Intel Motherboard or some UEFI based laptop (HP Elitebook or Sony Vaio) or USB based Tianocore EDK or EDK2 DUET (the firmware I use)? Regards. _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
