EFI partition mount point and GRUB issue...

[Dochy]

Hi
It is some time, I installed and maintained small home server base on VIA. I tried to upgrade and made a new install of low power AMD. I tried it few months ago and went into trouble on first reboot. I was not able to get through it and postponed it to next occasion and it is here now.

I believe I followed AMD64 handbook and I'm afraid I'm getting to the same issue as last time. I used Gentoo LIVE CD, I have /dev/sda1 mounted as /efi but there is /boot directory in the system and there are almost all kernel and bootloader files in the /boot. There is only one file in /efi after I went through bootloader chapter:

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(chroot) livecd /etc/init.d # ls -R /efi
/efi:
EFI

/efi/EFI:
gentoo

/efi/EFI/gentoo:
grubx64.efi

I'm pretty sure I can't try reboot at this state as I would be stuck on the same point as the last time.
Do you have any sugestions? I'm not familiar with EFI/UEFI (the last succesfull instalation was GPT) and it looks like main issue preventing me from working comupter.

[charles17]

you wat to read https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/EFI_System_Partition and https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/EFI_stub

[Nowa]

Hi
I believe I followed AMD64 handbook and I'm afraid I'm getting to the same issue as last time. I used Gentoo LIVE CD, I have /dev/sda1 mounted as /efi but there is /boot directory in the system and there are almost all kernel and bootloader files in the /boot. There is only one file in /efi after I went through bootloader chapter:

This is correct, when grub is used the kernels, grub config, and grub modules are in /boot and not on the ESP.

If grub is not loading at boot, then please verify that grub is registered in the UEFI with efibootmgr. Your system might have troublesome firmware, in which case you might want to try running grub-install with the --removable argument to install the grub EFI executable at the default fallback location (/efi/EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.EFI).

[sMueggli]

And please make sure you have a valid grub.cfg under /boot/grub.

[Dochy]

Thanks all for support
I had to postpone this instalation but I will continue soon and will let you know about the result
Have a nice day

[Dochy]

Thanks all for support
I had to postpone this instalation but I will continue soon and will let you know about the result
Have a nice day

As I promissed I'm back with report
So I was able to try it again as I left at home for a week unexpectedly. I have this installation done, gentoo is working, booting without any issue. Still no idea what I missed earlier, but it is working now.
Thanks for your support.