Grub2 with GPT and UEFI don't read grub.conf file

[hiroru]

Hi Guys,

After many hours trying to solve it by myself I'm exhausted

I have Grub2 working with GPT and UEFI but, Grub always run with minimal-bash command line. Once there, if I do:

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configfile /grub/grub.conf

It shows my menu and Gentoo start smoothly....

This is my fstab:

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/dev/sda2 on /boot type ext4 (rw,relatime,noatime,discard)
/dev/sdb1 on /home type ext4 (rw,relatime,noatime,discard)
/dev/sda1 on /boot/efi type vfat (rw) <-- Of course, this is EFI EF00 Partition

And this is my /boot dir tree:

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.
|-- efi
|   `-- EFI
|       `-- gentoo
|           |-- grub.conf
|           `-- grubx64.efi
|-- grub
|   |-- fonts
|   |   `-- unicode.pf2
|   |-- grub.conf
|   |-- grub.conf.bak
|   |-- grubenv
|   |-- locale
|   |   |-- ast.mo
|   |   |-- [...]
|   |   `-- zh_TW.mo
|   |-- themes
|   |   `-- starfield
|   |       |-- blob_w.png
|   |       |-- [...]
|   |       `-- theme.txt
|   `-- x86_64-efi
|       |-- acpi.mod
|       |-- [...]
|       `-- zfs.mod
|-- initramfs-genkernel-x86_64-3.12.13-gentoo
|-- kernel-genkernel-x86_64-3.12.13-gentoo
|-- lost+found
`-- System.map-genkernel-x86_64-3.12.13-gentoo

Any idea here?

Thank in advance

[jfp]

Just an idea.
try renaming your /boot/grub/grub.conf to /boot/grub/grub.cfg
From /etc/default/grub

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# To populate all changes in this file you need to regenerate your
# grub configuration file afterwards:
#     'grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg'

[srs5694]

My suggestion is to replace GRUB 2 with something else. IMHO, GRUB 2 is overly-complex and far too difficult to configure. Every other EFI boot loader for Linux is easier to configure, at least when using a distribution like Gentoo that expects users to do much of the work. (Fedora, Ubuntu, and similar distributions have scripts that set GRUB 2 up tolerably well for typical configurations.) See the following page for information on the alternatives:

http://www.rodsbooks.com/efi-bootloaders/

[nlsa8z6zoz7lyih3ap]

If you liked the way that grub-0.97 could be configured and used, then see
http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GRUB2_Quick ... figuration

for how to use grub2 much the same way.

In particular note the section "Manual Configuration"

[hiroru]

Just an idea.
try renaming your /boot/grub/grub.conf to /boot/grub/grub.cfg
From /etc/default/grub

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# To populate all changes in this file you need to regenerate your
# grub configuration file afterwards:
#     'grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg'

Thank you jfs,

I have a sense of shame about this..... but it's true, simply change grub.conf with grub.cgf