On Tue, Jan 3, 2017, 12:51 PM Michael Eager <ea...@eagercon.com> wrote:
> On 01/03/2017 09:09 AM, Chris Murphy wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 8:06 AM, Michael Eager <ea...@eagercon.com> > wrote: > >> The Fedora 23 installation on my laptop will not boot. grub.cfg > >> is missing, for some reason. > > > > That's unusual. How do you know it's missing, and where is it normally > located? > > It should be under /boot/grub2. I found out that it was missing by > booting, > receiving a bare "grub>" prompt with nothing else, and spending time > doing web searches, learning way too much about EFI, Fedora's GRUB puts the grub.cfg on the EFI System partition. It's non-standard. Path is /boot/efi/EFI/fedora/ and scratching my > head 'till my hair hurt. The grub directory is there, with grubenv and > themes, but no conf file. > Normal on Fedora. > No idea how grub.conf could have been deleted. I copied a couple large > directories from a server to the laptop (obviously not to /boot and not > as root) and then shut down. Next boot, no grub.conf. > Please don't use grub2-install which is obsolete on UEFI computers. Docs I cited are consistent with this, including how to properly reinstall GRUB on UEFi. Chris Murphy
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