With 1.99, i only had to use 'grub-install' (without any parameter, and not necessarily booted in EFI mode).
It would be nice (for retrocompatibility) if 2.00 could do the same (eg it could guess the 32/64 architecture, and set --efi-directory to /boot/efi by default).
It's not that simple. /boot/efi is just a mount point for the EFI System partition. grub.efi can't free float on that partition, it won't be found. It needs to go in /efi/grub or /efi/fedora or /efi/suse or whatever, per the UEFI spec. I think for upstream grub it probably would be <mountpoint>/efi/grub. And then each distribution can modify so their grub-install will place grub.efi in the distribution specific location on the EFI System partition.
Chris Murphy |