Re: F18: rescue EFI boot from rescue disk: cannot "modprobe efivars"

2013-02-26 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Nick Urbanik wrote: > From a rescue disk, I cannot run efibootmgr. The response is always, > "Fatal: Couldn't open either sysfs or procfs directories for accessing > EFI variables. > Try "modprobe efivars" as root" This means your system is not EFI. You should run grub2-install to reset your MB

F18: rescue EFI boot from rescue disk: cannot "modprobe efivars"

2013-02-25 Thread Nick Urbanik
Dear Folks, I tried to upgrade my Fedora 18 x86_64 on my Lenovo X121e laptop from grub-efi to grub2-efi with a failure to boot. I followed the wiki entry for Fedup, under "Updating GRUB". From a rescue disk, I cannot run efibootmgr. The response is always, "Fatal: Couldn't open either sysfs or