On Tue, 28 May 2019 20:28:16 -0700
Samuel Sieb <samuel(a)sieb.net> wrote:
(I
really need to install a system to see how this really works.)
Yeah, I decided that I wanted to install this as UEFI with BLS to see
how everything works together. Reading just isn't the same.
If both installs are using BLS, then you could add something to the
main grub.cfg to point to the other set of BLS files as well. In the
end, you either have to have separate EFI boot entries for the
installs or one of the installs has to have the master config.
Exactly.
A UEFI install without the ESP will definitely fail, since there
will
be no place to put the bootloader.
So, I decided to go for the UEFI install after creating an EFI system
partition on the drive.
Number Start (sector) End (sector) Size Code Name
1 2097152 4194303 1024.0 MiB 8300
2 4194304 6291455 1024.0 MiB 0700
3 6291456 48234495 20.0 GiB 8200
4 48234496 572522495 250.0 GiB 8300
5 572522496 1096810495 250.0 GiB 0700
6 1096810496 5860532223 2.2 TiB 0700
7 2048 6143 2.0 MiB EF02
8 6144 2097151 1021.0 MiB EF00 EFI System Partition
And now, no matter what I do in the firmware options, just to be
perverse, the CD *will not* boot in UEFI mode. I even tried getting
rid of the mbr record during install, but it just told me that it is
required for an mbr system, even when I include the /boot/efi
partition as part of the install. And then, it continues to loop forever
when trying to install the boot record as mbr.
I give up for the time being. It's strange there isn't a switch that I
can set to explicitly tell it to install as UEFI.