Subj : uefi
To   : Gerrit Kuehn
From : Benny Pedersen
Date : Sun May 22 2022 11:18 am

Hello Gerrit!

20 May 2022 13:01, Gerrit Kuehn wrote to Kai Richter:

 KR>> I thought so too and i do have sda1 /boot/efi and sda3 /boot. But 
 KR>> /boot/efi is empty.

then efi is not installed with grub ?

 GK> Is there an entry in fstab for it?

uefi cant read fstab 
 
 GK> Maybe it is just not mounted?
 
+1 

 GK> Otherwise, have a look at the output of gdisk (or a similar tool) to 
 GK> locate your efi partition.

+1

 GK>>> The BIOS will detect the EFI parition and start what is available
 GK>>> there.

 KR>> Wouldn't that add a third place to manage boot partitions?
 KR>> There is the boot priority list in the bios and the boot manager 
 KR>> grub.

both can use same data, if needed

 GK> The BIOS lists the bootable EFI partitions it found. Mine typically 
 GK> look like this:

 GK> -+-
 GK> ~# l /boot/efi/EFI/BOOT/
 GK> -rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 139264 May  5 18:55 BOOTX64.EFI
 GK> -+-

if installed via grub

 GK> This is the default naming scheme that should always work. For 
 GK> everything else, you might have to set up boot environment variables 
 GK> (usually, efibootmgr is your friend there).

good


 Regards Benny

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