Re: grub2-tools and UEFI/GPT

2012-12-13 Thread Benjamin De Kosnik
> It sounds like your entry in your UEFI boot manager was erased. Did > you perform a UEFI update or clear it? > > To fix it in the future run "efibootmgr -c" to reinsert the entry. Aaaah. Thanks for pointing me at efibootmgr. -benjamin -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https

Re: grub2-tools and UEFI/GPT

2012-12-12 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2012-12-12 at 14:23 +0100, Stephan Bergmann wrote: > On 12/12/2012 10:39 AM, Chris Murphy wrote: > > UEFI is not BIOS. The command you were looking for is grub2-efi-install, > > whereas grub2-install is for BIOS systems. The package you should already > > have is grub2-efi. And on UEFI sy

Re: grub2-tools and UEFI/GPT

2012-12-12 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Stephan Bergmann wrote: > Then, "grub2-install /dev/sda" still failed to work with "this GPT > partition label contains no BIOS Boot Partition; embedding won't be > possible." In the end, I managed to get things working again with > "re-installing" Fedora 17 onto itself via CD, which has apparentl

Re: grub2-tools and UEFI/GPT

2012-12-12 Thread Stephan Bergmann
On 12/12/2012 10:39 AM, Chris Murphy wrote: UEFI is not BIOS. The command you were looking for is grub2-efi-install, whereas grub2-install is for BIOS systems. The package you should already have is grub2-efi. And on UEFI systems there are no boot sectors, there is a partition dedicated for bo

Re: grub2-tools and UEFI/GPT

2012-12-12 Thread Chris Murphy
UEFI is not BIOS. The command you were looking for is grub2-efi-install, whereas grub2-install is for BIOS systems. The package you should already have is grub2-efi. And on UEFI systems there are no boot sectors, there is a partition dedicated for boot managers/loaders as EFI applications called

grub2-tools and UEFI/GPT

2012-12-12 Thread Stephan Bergmann
When my UEFI/GPT-based Fedora 17 box refused to boot yesterday, I ran into the following trouble. The disk looked reasonably well from a rescue system, so I naively figured that something might be wrong with its initial sectors, and that grub2-install might magically fix that again. First, gr