On 9 Sep 2021 at 17:50, Jonathan Billings wrote:

From:   Jonathan Billings <billi...@negate.org>
Subject:        Re: Failure in gsetting up a UEFI USB Flash with Fedora 33??
Date sent:      Thu, 9 Sep 2021 17:50:36 -0400
To:     Community support for Fedora users <users@lists.fedoraproject.org>
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> On Sep 9, 2021, at 10:40, Michael D. Setzer II via users 
> <users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> 
>     At that step I end up getting the error message?
>     grub2-install: error: this utility cannot be used for EFI 
>     platforms because it does not support UEFI Secure Boot.
> 
> The basic answer is: Don’t use grub2-install on Fedora UEFI systems.
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1917213
> 
That bug report seems to have a lot in it. States that the 
Fedora version is setup for the Fedora signed version, but 
the grub2-install then would try to install and unsigned 
version, and then if the secure boot was turned back on, 
it would then fail to boot the signed kernels??

But I'm trying to get it to create an EFI on a separate 
USB flash, so not sure how that would effect the EFI 
booting of the hard disk?? 

Seen similar stuff on Syslinux list about work on getting 
EFI support, and that has been going on for years. 
6.03 of syslinux is still the latest full release going back to 
2014, but the 6.04 has work done, but doesn't seem to be 
ready for prime time.

More to look at, but less hope of finding a easy/simple 
solution. Just downloaded and build 3 new kernels from 
kernel.org, and with the regular (non EFI) they all work 
just fine.
Thanks for the info..


> You will have to boot into another OS to create a UEFI boot using 
> grub-install.
> 
> However, you can use the files from the Fedora grub2-efi-x64 and shim-x64 
> packages, and just copy them into the /EFI/BOOT directory of the fat32 
> partition, 
> which should work for the Secure Boot systems, although the expect to find 
> grub2 
> EFI executables in /EFI/fedora.
> 
> If you can’t disable Secure Boot, that’s what I suggest.
> 
> —
> Jonathan Billings

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