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bug #35706: grub-2.00~beta0 target x86_64-efi not autodetected if efivars not loaded

Submitted by:  Chris Mayo <cmayo>
Submitted on:  Sat 03 Mar 2012 11:04:06 AM UTC  
 
Category: NoneSeverity: Major
Priority: 5 - NormalItem Group: Software Error
Status: FixedPrivacy: Public
Assigned to: NoneOriginator Name: 
Open/Closed: ClosedRelease: 
Release: otherReproducibility: Every Time
Planned Release: None

Sat 03 Mar 2012 11:04:06 AM UTC, original submission:

On amd64 Linux, grub-install.in tries to autodetect target="x86_64-efi" by finding /sys/firmware/efi at line 268.

But module efivars is not loaded until line 761.

So if efivars is not already loaded:

# grub2-efi-64-install
source_dir doesn'\''t exist. Please specify --target or --directory

Chris Mayo <cmayo>

 

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