Re: about an grub 2.00 installation error

[Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko]

On 29.10.2014 01:11, Sun, Ning wrote:
> Same message printed on the screen when just run grub-install, suspect
> it is grub 2.0 bug or defect….
> 
No, you just didn't install the right flavour of GRUB. You forgot to
install grub-efi-amd64
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> Regards，
> 
> Sun Ning
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> *From:address@hidden
> [mailto:address@hidden *On Behalf Of
> *Chris Murphy
> *Sent:* Tuesday, October 28, 2014 11:20 AM
> *To:* The development of GNU GRUB
> *Subject:* Re: about an grub 2.00 installation error
> *Importance:* High
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> On Oct 27, 2014, at 6:34 PM, "Sun, Ning" <address@hidden
> <mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
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>     Hi,
> 
>     I encountered an error when installing grub 2.00 on my Linux
>     system(boot from EFI BIOS), the error showed “source_dir doesn't
>     exist. Please specify --target or –directory”
> 
>     The error occurred after I run this command:
> 
>     *#grub-install –boot-directory=/boot /dev/sda*
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> On EFI just run grub-install with no options, it finds /boot/efi/EFI and
> if necessary creates /boot/efi/EFI/grub and puts grubx64.efi there, and
> also writes an entry in NVRAM so it should get used by default instead
> of gummiboot.
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> Chris Murphy
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