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From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
To: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org>
Cc: Ricardo Wurmus <ricardo.wurmus@mdc-berlin.de>, 30311@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#30311: efi-less grub install fails
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2018 22:49:19 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lgfnqqlc.fsf@elephly.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180220224317.36920bcb@scratchpost.org>


Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org> writes:

>> I don’t understand this patch.  How does it work?
>>
>> What is the effect of replacing /sys/firmware/efi with
>> /sys/firmware/non-efi?
>
> It won't find EFI since it's looking in the wrong place.
>
> That's what we want :)

So the value “/sys/firmware/non-efi” might as well be
“/does-not-exist”?

Your patch subject says “Make sure that non-EFI grub doesn't try to use
EFI”, but the problem I had was that GRUB insisted on being passed a
“--target” option.  That was with a GRUB installation on a system in
legacy mode.  Do you mean that this failed because GRUB erroneously
attempted an EFI installation?

I’m thoroughly confused.

--
Ricardo

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  reply	other threads:[~2018-02-20 21:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-01-31 18:55 bug#30311: efi-less grub install fails Ricardo Wurmus
2018-01-31 23:34 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2018-02-01 12:40   ` Marius Bakke
2018-02-18 11:28     ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-01-31 23:55 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-02-18 16:20 ` Mark H Weaver
2018-02-18 16:49   ` Danny Milosavljevic
2018-02-20 21:40     ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-02-20 21:43       ` Danny Milosavljevic
2018-02-20 21:49         ` Ricardo Wurmus [this message]
2018-02-20 22:00           ` Danny Milosavljevic
2018-03-26 21:15             ` Danny Milosavljevic
2018-02-20  3:21   ` Marius Bakke
2018-02-20  3:46     ` Marius Bakke
2018-02-20 20:54       ` Danny Milosavljevic
2018-02-20 21:00       ` Danny Milosavljevic
2018-02-22 15:06         ` Marius Bakke
2018-02-22 15:47           ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-02-23 11:30             ` Marius Bakke

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