On May 31, 2015 1:53 PM, "Adrian Sevcenco" <adrian.sevce...@cern.ch> wrote: > > On 05/31/2015 10:27 PM, Pete Travis wrote: > > On 05/31/2015 01:27 AM, Adrian Sevcenco wrote: > >> > >> One more clarification i would like: > >> what is the difference between the loaders?: > >> gcdx64.efi > >> grubx64.efi > >> MokManager.efi > >> shim.efi > >> shim-fedora.efi > >> > >> the shim part i know that is for secure boot (which is disabled in my case). > >> what are the others? is there a wiki page explaining this files? > >> > >> Thank you! > >> Adrian > >> > >> > >> > > > > There might be wiki pages that explain all this, but wiki pages can be > > hard to find and often get lost and unmaintained, so I wrote a guide > > instead. It doesn't explain the individual files at the moment > > (although there is some copy in the sources for it) because it's > > information that you don't really need to get the system going, and I > > didn't want to overwhelm new users. I'll look at adding the info in an > > appropriate section. > > > > Until then, grubx64.efi is the actual grub second stage binary, > > MokManager.efi is for signature management, shim is the part that is > > signed and allows SecureBoot to work. > Thanks a lot for help and info! > One more thing i would like to clarify (as i am new to EFI stuff): > is it possible to have a boot media with live isos (like an usb stick) for both > EFI and non-EFI systems? (i was wondering if just adding the /boot/efi part from > a system with a corresponding grub.conf would be enough to being bootable by both > legacy and UEFI only systems) > > Thank you! > Adrian >
Yes, the Fedora install media is designed to work with both UEFI and not (as you discovered :) Installing the grub2-efi and shim packages will populate /boot/efi/ for Fedora. I think the part we might have brushed over was setting up the existing EFI System Partition in fstab and the chroot... --Pete
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