Re: updating the GRUB bootloader on EFI systems while upgrading

2025-04-18 Thread Ranjan Maitra via users
On Wed Apr16'25 12:59:45AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > From: Patrick O'Callaghan > Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2025 00:59:45 +0100 > To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org > Reply-To: Community support for Fedora users > Subject: Re: updating the GRUB bootloader on EFI syste

Re: updating the GRUB bootloader on EFI systems while upgrading

2025-04-18 Thread Ranjan Maitra via users
> > Is the command called something else? > > FYI: There a a number of ways to answer this question yourself. > > 1. ls /usr/bin/*fwupd* > 2. rpm -ql fwupd > > I use the rpm -ql frequently when I'm not sure what an RPM installed and > where it put it. > Thanks very much for this information!

Re: updating the GRUB bootloader on EFI systems while upgrading

2025-04-16 Thread Tim via users
Ranjan Maitra: >> It is my understanding that my GRUB2 is installed on UEFI systems. Marco Moock: > In most cases it is, as it also provides an EFI bootloader that can > boot Linux. Even if there are ways to boot the Linux kernel directly > from the UEFI, most operating systems shi

Re: updating the GRUB bootloader on EFI systems while upgrading

2025-04-16 Thread Barry Scott
> On 16 Apr 2025, at 00:54, Ranjan Maitra via users > wrote: > > $ sudo fwupd > sudo: fwupd: command not found > > However, fwupd is installed. Why can it not be found? > > $ sudo dnf install fwupd > Updating and loading repositories: > Repositories loaded. > Package "fwupd-1.9.29-1.fc41.x86

Re: updating the GRUB bootloader on EFI systems while upgrading

2025-04-15 Thread Ranjan Maitra via users
On Wed Apr16'25 12:38:41AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > From: Patrick O'Callaghan > Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2025 00:38:41 +0100 > To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org > Reply-To: Community support for Fedora users > Subject: Re: updating the GRUB bootloader on EFI syste

Re: updating the GRUB bootloader on EFI systems while upgrading

2025-04-15 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
nity support for Fedora users > > Subject: Re: updating the GRUB bootloader on EFI systems while upgrading > > > > On Tue, 2025-04-15 at 18:00 -0500, Ranjan Maitra via users wrote: > > > Thanks! But I get fwupd: command not found. > > > > > > Is that not

Re: updating the GRUB bootloader on EFI systems while upgrading

2025-04-15 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2025-04-15 at 18:00 -0500, Ranjan Maitra via users wrote: > Thanks! But I get fwupd: command not found. > > Is that not different from an update not found? > $ rpm -qi fwupd Name: fwupd Version : 1.9.29 Release : 1.fc41 Architecture: x86_64 Install Date: Thu 20 Mar 2025 09

Re: updating the GRUB bootloader on EFI systems while upgrading

2025-04-15 Thread Ranjan Maitra via users
On Wed Apr16'25 12:20:56AM, greg wrote: > From: greg > Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2025 00:20:56 +0200 > To: Community support for Fedora users > Reply-To: Community support for Fedora users > Subject: Re: updating the GRUB bootloader on EFI systems while upgrading > > >

Re: updating the GRUB bootloader on EFI systems while upgrading

2025-04-15 Thread greg
> Why do I get fwupd not found? The commands to use - as root - are: # fwupdmgr get-updates If updates are available for any devices on the system, they'll be displayed. # fwupdmgr update This will download and apply all updates for your system. (Taken from /usr/share/doc/fwupd/README.md) Also t

Re: updating the GRUB bootloader on EFI systems while upgrading

2025-04-15 Thread Ranjan Maitra via users
Thanks for your response! On Tue Apr15'25 09:07:27PM, Marco Moock wrote: > From: Marco Moock > Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2025 21:07:27 +0200 > To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org > Reply-To: Community support for Fedora users > Subject: Re: updating the GRUB bootloader on EFI sys

Re: updating the GRUB bootloader on EFI systems while upgrading

2025-04-15 Thread Barry
> On 15 Apr 2025, at 19:59, Ranjan Maitra via users > wrote: > > However, the installed or embedded bootloaders are never updated > automatically. If you mean the fedora efi code; it is updated in /boot/efi when there is a change. I have personally verified this works r

Re: updating the GRUB bootloader on EFI systems while upgrading

2025-04-15 Thread Marco Moock
ever updated > automatically. The UEFI firmware is being provided by the system/mainboard manufacturer. fwupd provides a way to update the UEFI if the vendor supports it. > It is my understanding that my GRUB2 is installed on UEFI systems. In most cases it is, as it also provides an EFI bootlo

updating the GRUB bootloader on EFI systems while upgrading

2025-04-15 Thread Ranjan Maitra via users
According to https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/upgrading-fedora-offline/ systems with the BIOS firmware have the GRUB RPM packages updated. However, the installed or embedded bootloaders are never updated automatically. It is my understanding that my GRUB2 is installed on UEFI sy

Re: EFI and fedora

2023-09-26 Thread Robert McBroom via users
s the partition table to find the correct partition, mounts that partition and reads the configured executables from it. OK I see, thanks exactly what I was asking. So if for some reason you wanted to save boot code, I guess, you would save partitions and files? Yes. And maybe I guess dump out th

Re: EFI and fedora

2023-09-25 Thread Chris Adams
e partition > >table to find the correct partition, mounts that partition and reads the > >configured executables from it. > > OK I see, thanks exactly what I was asking. So if for some reason > you wanted to save boot code, I guess, you would save partitions and > files?

Re: EFI and fedora

2023-09-25 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 9/25/2023 4:44 PM, Chris Adams wrote: Once upon a time, Bill Cunningham said: ... There's no magic reserved space outside partitions that is used for booting anymore. The firmware finds the device, reads the partition table to find the correct partition, mounts that partition and reads the

Re: EFI and fedora

2023-09-25 Thread Chris Adams
inary of the drive? Or, is that all > gone now and we are just looking at files in text in partitions like > boot/efi ? UEFI uses GPT partitioning, and uses a partition to store the files needed for booting (which Fedora usually mounts at /boot/efi). The partition has a special assigne

EFI and fedora

2023-09-25 Thread Bill Cunningham
just looking at files in text in partitions like boot/efi ? Bill ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US

Re: works fine - Re: F38 install fails on a Lenovo x120e - Failed to set new efi boot traget

2023-07-18 Thread Michael D. Setzer II via users
On 17 Jul 2023 at 17:29, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Date sent: Mon, 17 Jul 2023 17:29:17 -0400 Subject:works fine - Re: F38 install fails on a Lenovo x120e - Failed to set new efi boot traget From: Robert Moskowitz To: Community support for Fedora users , Roger

works fine - Re: F38 install fails on a Lenovo x120e - Failed to set new efi boot traget

2023-07-17 Thread Robert Moskowitz
I got the error again when the install got to that point.  I told it to ignore and continue installing. I have a usable system. I did notice on boot an option to edit the EFI firmware.  I selected that and got an error that cannot boot into the EFI editor. But that is ok.  the system is

Re: F38 install fails on a Lenovo x120e - Failed to set new efi boot traget

2023-07-17 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 7/17/23 16:07, Michael D. Setzer II wrote: First computer was a 1963 IBM 1130 with punch cards back in 1975. So started with old machines that still were working.. High School.. I started with a teletype 55 baudot to a GE MarkV in '66.  Best I can figure out was our school (Euclid OH) w

Re: F38 install fails on a Lenovo x120e - Failed to set new efi boot traget

2023-07-17 Thread Michael D. Setzer II via users
On 17 Jul 2023 at 11:25, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Date sent: Mon, 17 Jul 2023 11:25:31 -0400 To: Community support for Fedora users From: Robert Moskowitz Subject:F38 install fails on a Lenovo x120e - Failed to set new efi boot

Re: F38 install fails on a Lenovo x120e - Failed to set new efi boot traget

2023-07-17 Thread Robert Moskowitz
do the install again, keep the drive partitions I set up and ignore the EFI warning and see how it goes... On 7/17/23 15:05, Roger Heflin wrote: Yes, some did have efi back then.  i have some fm2 mbs that did. There will be an option in the bios to enable efi if it does.  efi dates to early

Re: F38 install fails on a Lenovo x120e - Failed to set new efi boot traget

2023-07-17 Thread Roger Heflin
Yes, some did have efi back then. i have some fm2 mbs that did. There will be an option in the bios to enable efi if it does. efi dates to early itanium systems in 2002. it was so bad it took years to make it to x86 systems. very little was in the classic bios menu and most config was in a

Re: F38 install fails on a Lenovo x120e - Failed to set new efi boot traget

2023-07-17 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Bios ver is "current", ver 1.17 dated 11/7/2012! Did we have EFI back then? Oh, F37 live CD booted fine. On 7/17/23 13:17, Jeffrey Walton wrote: On Mon, Jul 17, 2023 at 11:25 AM Robert Moskowitz wrote: this system had F22 on it. I just went through all the steps to blow aw

Re: F38 install fails on a Lenovo x120e - Failed to set new efi boot traget

2023-07-17 Thread Robert Moskowitz
hour with the spindizzy on "Installing boot loader". If finally came back with a dialog box with an error of: The following error occurred while installing the boot loader. The system will not be bootable. Would you like to ignore this and continue with the installation? Failed to s

Re: F38 install fails on a Lenovo x120e - Failed to set new efi boot traget

2023-07-17 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Mon, Jul 17, 2023 at 1:56 PM Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > I just recalled. There was a /boot/efi partition on the old F22 setup. > > But booting up F37 live now. If you haven't done so, now would be a good time to update the laptop's firmware. Get on the latest version

Re: F38 install fails on a Lenovo x120e - Failed to set new efi boot traget

2023-07-17 Thread Robert Moskowitz
I just recalled.  There was a /boot/efi partition on the old F22 setup. But booting up F37 live now. On 7/17/23 13:17, Jeffrey Walton wrote: On Mon, Jul 17, 2023 at 11:25 AM Robert Moskowitz wrote: this system had F22 on it. I just went through all the steps to blow away the old partitions

Re: F38 install fails on a Lenovo x120e - Failed to set new efi boot traget

2023-07-17 Thread Robert Moskowitz
came back with a dialog box with an error of: The following error occurred while installing the boot loader. The system will not be bootable. Would you like to ignore this and continue with the installation? Failed to set new efi boot target. This is most likely a kernel or firmware bug. No

Re: F38 install fails on a Lenovo x120e - Failed to set new efi boot traget

2023-07-17 Thread Jeffrey Walton
t; If finally came back with a dialog box with an error of: > > The following error occurred while installing the boot loader. The > system will not be bootable. Would you like to ignore this and continue > with the installation? > > Failed to set new efi boot target. This is most

Re: F38 install fails on a Lenovo x120e - Failed to set new efi boot traget

2023-07-17 Thread Robert Moskowitz
It has the AMD E-350 duo core CPU which I am pretty sure is x64. On 7/17/23 12:58, Barry wrote: On 17 Jul 2023, at 16:26, Robert Moskowitz wrote: What should I do at this point. It IS an old system that has had a number of ver of Fedora on it. It was booting F22 just fine, it seemed but n

Re: F38 install fails on a Lenovo x120e - Failed to set new efi boot traget

2023-07-17 Thread Robert Moskowitz
oot loader". If finally came back with a dialog box with an error of: The following error occurred while installing the boot loader.  The system will not be bootable.  Would you like to ignore this and continue with the installation? Failed to set new efi boot target.  This is most likely a ker

Re: F38 install fails on a Lenovo x120e - Failed to set new efi boot traget

2023-07-17 Thread Barry
> On 17 Jul 2023, at 16:26, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > What should I do at this point. It IS an old system that has had a number of > ver of Fedora on it. It was booting F22 just fine, it seemed but now it is > all gone... Is it a 64bit system or 32bit? Fedora needs 64bit now. Barry

Re: F38 install fails on a Lenovo x120e - Failed to set new efi boot traget

2023-07-17 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
gt; > If finally came back with a dialog box with an error of: > > The following error occurred while installing the boot loader.  The > system will not be bootable.  Would you like to ignore this and > continue > with the installation? > > Failed to set new efi boot target.

F38 install fails on a Lenovo x120e - Failed to set new efi boot traget

2023-07-17 Thread Robert Moskowitz
alling the boot loader.  The system will not be bootable.  Would you like to ignore this and continue with the installation? Failed to set new efi boot target.  This is most likely a kernel or firmware bug. No|Yes What should I do at this point.  It IS an old system that has had a number

Did install of Fedora 37 on 128G USB Flash, but then wouldn't show as boot? Until resized EFI System?

2023-03-03 Thread Michael D. Setzer II via users
it automatically create. After complete, the Acer would not show the flash as a boot option?? For some reason the default setup had created the EFI System as 600M with Fat32. On one of my other Fedora machines used gparted to resize it to 63M and that converted it to Fat16? Then the 128G usb

Re: Is there an equivalent to 40_custom with EFI boot?

2022-12-11 Thread Stephen Morris
On 10/12/22 16:28, Michael D. Setzer II via users wrote: Wondering if possible to add non-Fedora options to EFI boot menu with some method similar to the 40_Custom. Thanks. I've maintained a project on Sourceforge going back to 2004, and it was originally a cd only boot option, but over

Re: Is there an equivalent to 40_custom with EFI boot?

2022-12-09 Thread Felix Miata
Michael D. Setzer II composed on 2022-12-10 15:28 (UTC+1000): > Wondering if possible to add non-Fedora options to EFI boot menu with some > method similar to the 40_Custom. Thanks. ... > Also have this to run memtest since regular Fedora one doesn't seem to work?? > title mem

Is there an equivalent to 40_custom with EFI boot?

2022-12-09 Thread Michael D. Setzer II via users
Wondering if possible to add non-Fedora options to EFI boot menu with some method similar to the 40_Custom. Thanks. I've maintained a project on Sourceforge going back to 2004, and it was originally a cd only boot option, but over years create usb and ability to boot directly from grub2

Re: /boot/efi

2022-07-27 Thread stan via users
veral > >> disks, should I have a single /boot/efi ? > > > > It will work as long as none of the installed distributions are > > duplicated, because that will duplicate the label. e.g. default > > fedora label is fedora, so if more than one is installed there will

Re: EFI

2022-07-27 Thread Chris Murphy
> How is generated /boot/grub2/grub.cfg ? grub2-mkconfig creates /boot/grub2/grub.cfg There's a script in grub2-common that creates /boot/efi/fedora/grub.cfg, hence the reinstallation instructions to delete it so it's properly recreated if accidentally stepped on: https:

Re: /boot/efi

2022-07-27 Thread Chris Murphy
On Wed, Jul 27, 2022, at 11:20 AM, stan via users wrote: > On Wed, 27 Jul 2022 10:54:51 +0200 > Patrick Dupre wrote: > >> If I have several distributions on a single machine with several >> disks, should I have a single /boot/efi ? > > It will work as lo

Re: EFI

2022-07-27 Thread Patrick Dupre
, Patrick Dupre wrote: > > In addition to my previous question. > > Should I have a grub.cfg in /boot/efi/EFI/fedora ? > > There should be two: > > /boot/efi/EFI/fedora/grub.cfg > /boot/grub2/grub.cfg > > The first one has a few lines to find and load the 2nd one. &g

Re: EFI

2022-07-27 Thread Chris Murphy
On Wed, Jul 27, 2022, at 5:22 AM, Patrick Dupre wrote: > In addition to my previous question. > Should I have a grub.cfg in /boot/efi/EFI/fedora ? There should be two: /boot/efi/EFI/fedora/grub.cfg /boot/grub2/grub.cfg The first one has a few lines to find and load the 2nd one.

Re: /boot/efi

2022-07-27 Thread stan via users
On Wed, 27 Jul 2022 10:54:51 +0200 Patrick Dupre wrote: > If I have several distributions on a single machine with several > disks, should I have a single /boot/efi ? It will work as long as none of the installed distributions are duplicated, because that will duplicate the label

Re: /boot/efi

2022-07-27 Thread Tim via users
On Wed, 2022-07-27 at 10:54 +0200, Patrick Dupre wrote: > If I have several distributions on a single machine with several > disks, should I have a single /boot/efi ? That is the general idea. It's part of the system bootloader, and different OSs put their bits in there. You'll

Re: EFI

2022-07-27 Thread Patrick Dupre
In addition to my previous question. Should I have a grub.cfg in /boot/efi/EFI/fedora ? > > Hello, > > Is there not something wrong with this > > When /boot/efi is ot mounted: > ls /boot/efi/ > EFI > > > while in the fstab > UUID=A686-D625 /boo

/boot/efi

2022-07-27 Thread Patrick Dupre
Hello, If I have several distributions on a single machine with several disks, should I have a single /boot/efi ? Thank === Patrick DUPRÉ | | email: pdu...@gmx.com Laboratoire

Re: EFI

2022-07-27 Thread Barry Scott
> On 26 Jul 2022, at 19:02, Patrick Dupre wrote: > > Hello, > > Is there not something wrong with this > > When /boot/efi is ot mounted: > ls /boot/efi/ > EFI That is normal - at least for my systems. $ mount | grep efi efivarfs on /sys/firmware/efi/efivars type

Re: EFI

2022-07-26 Thread Patrick Dupre
> > df /boot/efi > > And see if it is really mounted. Sorry, it is really mounted at boot. I can umount and remount even with a file in /boot/efi/EFI is here I am going to guess it is not. And > it has nofail so will cleanly fail and not block the os. > > After the

Re: EFI

2022-07-26 Thread Roger Heflin
df /boot/efi And see if it is really mounted. I am going to guess it is not. And it has nofail so will cleanly fail and not block the os. After the df then try a mount /boot/efi On Tue, Jul 26, 2022 at 1:02 PM Patrick Dupre wrote: > > Hello, > > Is there not something wro

EFI

2022-07-26 Thread Patrick Dupre
Hello, Is there not something wrong with this When /boot/efi is ot mounted: ls /boot/efi/ EFI while in the fstab UUID=A686-D625 /boot/efi vfat umask=0077,shortname=winnt,nofail 0 2 Indeed, I really have the mount the of /boot/efi during the boot and of course ls

Re: EFI shell?

2021-12-25 Thread George N. White III
On Fri, 24 Dec 2021 at 19:00, Tom Horsley wrote: > I recently got a new mini PC that is UEFI only. Out of curiosity > I started reading about the EFI shell. I now have only one > question: Would any "ordinary" user ever have any reason to > use the EFI shell? (Secondary

Re: EFI shell?

2021-12-24 Thread Roger Heflin
Well, when EFI started it was so screwed up that pretty much everything had to be done in that EFI shell (the classic bios screen did very little in the early systems). That was 2002-2003 (or before), and it has taken so long for EFI to take over is because of how badly the first implementations

Re: EFI shell?

2021-12-24 Thread old sixpack13
> I recently got a new mini PC that is UEFI only. Out of curiosity > I started reading about the EFI shell. I now have only one > question: Would any "ordinary" user ever have any reason to > use the EFI shell? (Secondary question: Would he be able to > anyway?) > >

EFI shell?

2021-12-24 Thread Tom Horsley
I recently got a new mini PC that is UEFI only. Out of curiosity I started reading about the EFI shell. I now have only one question: Would any "ordinary" user ever have any reason to use the EFI shell? (Secondary question: Would he be able to anyway?) Trying to decrypt the things I

Re: Installation & EFI

2021-09-06 Thread stan via users
On Sun, 05 Sep 2021 17:34:49 - "Gunnar Gervin" wrote: Welcome to Fedora. > Where do I find a Fedora distro with EFI ? If you go here, you should be able to download an install image. There are also images that allow most of the install to be done from the net (netinstall)

Re: OT: How to load kernels in EFI setup.

2021-09-06 Thread Michael D. Setzer II via users
On 6 Sep 2021 at 1:02, Samuel Sieb wrote: Subject:Re: OT: How to load kernels in EFI setup. To: Community support for Fedora users From: Samuel Sieb Date sent: Mon, 6 Sep 2021 01:02:18 -0700 Send reply to: Community

Re: OT: How to load kernels in EFI setup.

2021-09-06 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 9/4/21 4:21 AM, Michael D. Setzer II wrote: Thanks for the quick response. Yes, the kernel EFI options are built into the kernels build from the kernel.org source code, but don't have signatures, since that seems to be a very expensive and long process, as I've seen on the memtest

Re: Installation & EFI

2021-09-05 Thread Ryan Cunningham
> El sep. 5, 2021, a la(s) 9:12 p.m., Ryan Cunningham > escribió: > > El sep. 5, 2021, a la(s) 10:35 a.m., Gunnar Gervin > escribió: >> >> Hi all. >> Where do I find a Fedora distro with EFI ? >> In here cos heard & read that Fedora supports EFI

Re: Installation & EFI

2021-09-05 Thread Ryan Cunningham
El sep. 5, 2021, a la(s) 10:35 a.m., Gunnar Gervin escribió: > > Hi all. > Where do I find a Fedora distro with EFI ? > In here cos heard & read that Fedora supports EFI boot. > I set wrongfully up my Macbook 2,1 OSX 10.6.8 (2007) x86-64 with Debian > 32bit. > Becaus

Re: Fedora distro with EFI cd image

2021-09-05 Thread Matthew Miller
On Sun, Sep 05, 2021 at 10:49:21PM +0300, Gunnar Gervin wrote: > Hi all. > Where do I find a live Fedora x86-64 iso image with EFI 'cd image' in it ? > (My 2007 ex-Mac computer now only runs Puppy x86-64 live dvd in RAM.) > My Macbook 64b computer won't open any iso w

Fedora distro with EFI cd image

2021-09-05 Thread Gunnar Gervin
Hi all. Where do I find a live Fedora x86-64 iso image with EFI 'cd image' in it ? (My 2007 ex-Mac computer now only runs Puppy x86-64 live dvd in RAM.) My Macbook 64b computer won't open any iso without a cd image named EFI. Alt key on startup will show a 'Window cd', on

Installation & EFI

2021-09-05 Thread Gunnar Gervin
Hi all. Where do I find a Fedora distro with EFI ? In here cos heard & read that Fedora supports EFI boot. I set wrongfully up my Macbook 2,1 OSX 10.6.8 (2007) x86-64 with Debian 32bit. Because 32bit gets outdated and bnasically is wrong for the computer, I wanted 64bit. But of some reason

Re: OT: How to load kernels in EFI setup.

2021-09-04 Thread Michael D. Setzer II via users
On 3 Sep 2021 at 22:51, Samuel Sieb wrote: Subject:Re: OT: How to load kernels in EFI setup. To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org From: Samuel Sieb Date sent: Fri, 3 Sep 2021 22:51:57 -0700 Send reply to: Community support

Re: OT: How to load kernels in EFI setup.

2021-09-03 Thread Samuel Sieb
nitrd /ramdisk.lzma } Just copy the kernel and ramdisk.lzma to /boot and it becomes an option in the grub menu. Just had a use that got 140 new Dell machines, and they seem to no longer support any bios boot?? So, EFI is the only option. Have the EFI kernel options set, but haven't found info on how

OT: How to load kernels in EFI setup.

2021-09-03 Thread Michael D. Setzer II via users
t and it becomes an option in the grub menu. Just had a use that got 140 new Dell machines, and they seem to no longer support any bios boot?? So, EFI is the only option. Have the EFI kernel options set, but haven't found info on how to make an efi boot. I've looked, but I've not

Re: failed to mount /boot/efi

2021-07-19 Thread Patrick Dupre
d to mount /boot/efi > > On Jul 17, 2021, at 04:29, Patrick Dupre wrote: > > > > Then, > > mount /boot/efi > > mount: /boot/efi: unknown filesystem type 'vfat'. > > > > I also noted during the load: > > FAILED: failed to start load kernel

Re: failed to mount /boot/efi Help!

2021-07-18 Thread Jonathan Billings
xt4 > defaults1 1 > UUID=B2EF-0CE4 /boot/efi vfat > umask=0077,shortname=winnt,nofail 0 2 > > /boot/efi is mounted properly with fc32. > > Is it an issue with the modules ? You never answered my question. Can you share with us the output o

Re: failed to mount /boot/efi Help!

2021-07-18 Thread Patrick Dupre
Thanks for the feedback, However, I do not understand. Do you mean in the grub configuration /boot/efi/EFI/fedora/grub.cfg I have menuentry 'Fedora 34 (Workstation Edition) (on /dev/sda6)' --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os $menuentry_id_option 'osprober-gnulinux-/boot/vmli

Re: failed to mount /boot/efi Help!

2021-07-18 Thread Roger Heflin
> UUID=a5b809ae-61c2-4d67-b0f3-109e99faad39 / ext4 > defaults 1 1 > UUID=B2EF-0CE4 /boot/efi vfat > umask=0077,shortname=winnt,nofail 0 2 > > /boot/efi is mounted properly with fc32. > > Is it an issue with the modules ? >

Re: failed to mount /boot/efi Help!

2021-07-18 Thread Patrick Dupre
Hello, It is now 2 days that I am stuck with this issue. I search on internet, but I did not find clear solutions which I could trust. Here is the fstab UUID=a5b809ae-61c2-4d67-b0f3-109e99faad39 / ext4 defaults1 1 UUID=B2EF-0CE4 /boot/efi

Re: failed to mount /boot/efi

2021-07-17 Thread Roger Heflin
t; Then, > > mount /boot/efi > > mount: /boot/efi: unknown filesystem type 'vfat'. > > > > I also noted during the load: > > FAILED: failed to start load kernel modules > > You appear to be booting into a kernel that doesn’t have any kernel modules >

Re: failed to mount /boot/efi

2021-07-17 Thread Jonathan Billings
On Jul 17, 2021, at 04:29, Patrick Dupre wrote: > > Then, > mount /boot/efi > mount: /boot/efi: unknown filesystem type 'vfat'. > > I also noted during the load: > FAILED: failed to start load kernel modules You appear to be booting into a kernel that doesn’t hav

Re: failed to mount /boot/efi

2021-07-17 Thread Patrick Dupre
Thanks, nofail let me run the initialization. Then, mount /boot/efi mount: /boot/efi: unknown filesystem type 'vfat'. I also noted during the load: FAILED: failed to start load kernel modules Now journalctl -b -o short-monotonic --no-hostname It is long, I noted (in red): [

Re: failed to mount /boot/efi

2021-07-16 Thread Chris Murphy
On Fri, Jul 16, 2021 at 1:20 PM Patrick Dupre wrote: > > I collected the maximum information that I could > > Failed Mounting /boot/efi > See "systemctl boot-efi" for details > Dependency failed for local file system > Dependency failed for mark the ... to relabel a

Re: failed to mount /boot/efi

2021-07-16 Thread Patrick Dupre
I collected the maximum information that I could Failed Mounting /boot/efi See "systemctl boot-efi" for details Dependency failed for local file system Dependency failed for mark the ... to relabel after reboot Stopped You are in emergency mode. After logging in type "journalc

Re: failed to mount /boot/efi

2021-07-16 Thread Patrick Dupre
t;cannot boot" means because it > doesn't tell me how it's failing. > > > > I get > > failed to mount /boot/efi > > /boot/efi is shared by both machines > > > > Here is the fstab of the fc34 machine > > > > # > > UUID=a5b809ae-

Re: failed to mount /boot/efi

2021-07-15 Thread Chris Murphy
On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 12:31 PM Patrick Dupre wrote: > > I have been able to boot on a rescue kernel! > Linux localhost.localdomain 5.6.13-100.fc30.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri May 15 00:36:06 > UTC 2020 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux > > bootctl > systemd-boot not installed in ESP. > System: > Firmwa

Re: failed to mount /boot/efi

2021-07-15 Thread Chris Murphy
tell me how it's failing. > I get > failed to mount /boot/efi > /boot/efi is shared by both machines > > Here is the fstab of the fc34 machine > > # > UUID=a5b809ae-61c2-4d67-b0f3-109e99faad39 / ext4 > defaults1 1 > UUID=B2EF

Re: failed to mount /boot/efi

2021-07-15 Thread Patrick Dupre
fc34, I cannot boot on the new fc34. > I get > failed to mount /boot/efi > /boot/efi is shared by both machines > > Here is the fstab of the fc34 machine > > # > UUID=a5b809ae-61c2-4d67-b0f3-109e99faad39 / ext4 > defaults

failed to mount /boot/efi

2021-07-15 Thread Patrick Dupre
Hello, On a dual boot machine (one fc32, and one fc34). after I upgraded the fc32 to fc34, I cannot boot on the new fc34. I get failed to mount /boot/efi /boot/efi is shared by both machines Here is the fstab of the fc34 machine # UUID=a5b809ae-61c2-4d67-b0f3-109e99faad39

Re: How to debug grub2-efi -> kernel transition issues?

2021-03-30 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
debug code (in my working case it doesn't > mean anything to me) and then it goes black then i get kernel boot > scroll. Thanks! Yes, cryptic indeed. This is transcribed from a photograph so hopefully I didn't make a mistake: script/lexer.c:336: token 259 text [ ]

Re: How to debug grub2-efi -> kernel transition issues?

2021-03-29 Thread Chris Murphy
On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 1:55 AM Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > > I have a weird problem on an old Asus Zenbook UX305C where new kernels > cannot be installed by grub. Specifically what happens is they appear > in the boot menu fine, but if you try to boot them then the machine > hangs hard with a

How to debug grub2-efi -> kernel transition issues?

2021-03-29 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
I have a weird problem on an old Asus Zenbook UX305C where new kernels cannot be installed by grub. Specifically what happens is they appear in the boot menu fine, but if you try to boot them then the machine hangs hard with a completely black screen. Oddly the kernel installed by Anaconda can b

Re: need more space on /boot/efi

2020-07-25 Thread Neal Becker
Thanks for the suggestions. I did boot off liveusb and ran fsck on /boot/efi. It did report problems, and I answered questions with wild guesses. Seems to be OK now, and the dnf update completed OK. On Sat, Jul 25, 2020 at 3:55 PM Joe Zeff wrote: > On 07/25/2020 12:42 PM, Sam Varshavc

Re: need more space on /boot/efi

2020-07-25 Thread Joe Zeff
On 07/25/2020 12:42 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: Perhaps the /boot/efi FAT partition got corrupted. Try fscking it. Before you go that far, you might consider trying this: df -h /boot/efi This will tell you how much space is used and how much is free, in a human readable format

Re: need more space on /boot/efi

2020-07-25 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Neal Becker writes: « HTML content follows » Trying to install updates today failed because not enough space on /boot/efi.  Any idea how I can fix this?   installing package grub2-efi-x64-cdboot-1:2.04-21.fc32.x86_64 needs 6MB on the /boot/efi filesystem Error Summary

Re: need more space on /boot/efi

2020-07-25 Thread stan via users
On Sat, 25 Jul 2020 13:30:24 -0400 Neal Becker wrote: > Trying to install updates today failed because not enough space on > /boot/efi. Any idea how I can fix this? > > installing package grub2-efi-x64-cdboot-1:2.04-21.fc32.x86_64 needs > 6MB on the /boot/efi filesystem >

Re: need more space on /boot/efi

2020-07-25 Thread George N. White III
On Sat, 25 Jul 2020 at 14:31, Neal Becker wrote: > Trying to install updates today failed because not enough space on > /boot/efi. Any idea how I can fix this? > > installing package grub2-efi-x64-cdboot-1:2.04-21.fc32.x86_64 needs 6MB > on the /boot/efi filesystem &g

need more space on /boot/efi

2020-07-25 Thread Neal Becker
Trying to install updates today failed because not enough space on /boot/efi. Any idea how I can fix this? installing package grub2-efi-x64-cdboot-1:2.04-21.fc32.x86_64 needs 6MB on the /boot/efi filesystem Error Summary - Disk Requirements: At least 6MB more space needed on

Re: /usr/lib/grub/x86_64-efi/modinfo.sh

2020-07-03 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Jul 3, 2020 at 2:11 PM Patrick Dupre wrote: > > When I run grub2-install /dev/sda > I get > grub2-install: error: /usr/lib/grub/x86_64-efi/modinfo.sh doesn't < exist. Please specify --target or --directory > > In /usr/lib/grub/ > total 24 > drwxr-xr-x

/usr/lib/grub/x86_64-efi/modinfo.sh

2020-07-03 Thread Patrick Dupre
Hello, When I run grub2-install /dev/sda I get grub2-install: error: /usr/lib/grub/x86_64-efi/modinfo.sh doesn't exist. Please specify --target or --directory In /usr/lib/grub/ total 24 drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 12288 Jul 3 13:56 arm64-efi drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 12288 Jul 3 13:01 i3

Re: F32 installer : "bootloader did not set EFI variable LoaderDevicePartUUID"

2020-05-01 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 5/1/20 1:32 PM, sean darcy wrote: I got here with: dnf system-upgrade download dnf system-upgrade reboot Then what was that comment about the installer failing? Did you mean the boot? grub shows the FC32 kernel. When I boot from that fc32 kernel, I get this LoaderDevicePartUUID error.

Re: F32 installer : "bootloader did not set EFI variable LoaderDevicePartUUID"

2020-05-01 Thread sean darcy
On 5/1/20 3:03 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 4/30/20 6:44 AM, sean darcy wrote: The F32 installer fails. systemd-gpt-auto-generator can't find the EFI partition because the bootloader did not set it. Therefore sysroot is not setup. This is an Acer laptop, upgrading from F31. You say "

Re: F32 installer : "bootloader did not set EFI variable LoaderDevicePartUUID"

2020-05-01 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 4/30/20 6:44 AM, sean darcy wrote: The F32 installer fails. systemd-gpt-auto-generator can't find the EFI partition because the bootloader did not set it. Therefore sysroot is not setup. This is an Acer laptop, upgrading from F31. You say "installer", but then you say &quo

Re: F32 installer : "bootloader did not set EFI variable LoaderDevicePartUUID"

2020-05-01 Thread sean darcy
On 4/30/20 9:44 AM, sean darcy wrote: The F32 installer fails. systemd-gpt-auto-generator can't find the EFI partition because the bootloader did not set it. Therefore sysroot is not setup. This is an Acer laptop, upgrading from F31. Before that error, and maybe related to it, ther

F32 installer : "bootloader did not set EFI variable LoaderDevicePartUUID"

2020-04-30 Thread sean darcy
The F32 installer fails. systemd-gpt-auto-generator can't find the EFI partition because the bootloader did not set it. Therefore sysroot is not setup. This is an Acer laptop, upgrading from F31. Before that error, and maybe related to it, there are errors loading 2 X.509 certificates.

Re: Speaking of efi boot...

2019-11-28 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 11/28/19 3:08 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: I'm wondering if it is remotely possible to do the same sort of install with EFI booting. I assume I'd need the qemu EFI bios so the virtual machine is set up for EFI booting. Would efibootmgr be able to fix things after the copy? Anyone ever

Speaking of efi boot...

2019-11-28 Thread Tom Horsley
puter I'm building supports old fashioned MSDOS booting, or if I'll finally be forced to go with EFI. I'm wondering if it is remotely possible to do the same sort of install with EFI booting. I assume I'd need the qemu EFI bios so the virtual machine is set up for EFI booting. Wo

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