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[bug #63127] failure to correctly read BPB block in GPT/UEFI setting
From: |
Milan Durovic |
Subject: |
[bug #63127] failure to correctly read BPB block in GPT/UEFI setting |
Date: |
Tue, 4 Oct 2022 00:36:16 -0400 (EDT) |
Follow-up Comment #8, bug #63127 (project grub):
correction: partprobe *not* partproble below :-)
[comment #7 comment #7:]
> Ok, got it working! Mind you, I still don't understand which low level
detail was the stumbling block, or why it didn't work originally. The key help
came from this article:
>
>
https://blog.heckel.io/2017/05/28/creating-a-bios-gpt-and-uefi-gpt-grub-bootable-linux-system/
>
> the part that describes how to install on EFI systems. The key difference is
that after the creation of FAT32 filesystem as EFI system partition, I
detached the loop device and then reattached it using the following:
>
> LOOPDEV=$(sudo /usr/sbin/losetup --find --show ./uefi.img)
> sudo /usr/sbin/partproble $LOOPDEV
> sudo /bin/mount ${LOOPDEV}p1 /mnt
>
> Now, when I copied files and ran grub-install (I ended up using
grub-mkstandalone, but still the same) GRUB started normally and I finally
ended up in the GRUB shell.
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