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From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
Subject: bug#30311: efi-less grub install fails
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2018 22:49:19 +0100
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To: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org>
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Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org> writes:

>> I don=E2=80=99t 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 =E2=80=9C/sys/firmware/non-efi=E2=80=9D might as well be
=E2=80=9C/does-not-exist=E2=80=9D?

Your patch subject says =E2=80=9CMake sure that non-EFI grub doesn't try to=
 use
EFI=E2=80=9D, but the problem I had was that GRUB insisted on being passed =
a
=E2=80=9C--target=E2=80=9D 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=E2=80=99m thoroughly confused.

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Ricardo

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