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   Benny Pedersen to Gerrit Kuehn   
   uefi   
   22 May 22 11:18:32   
   
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   Hello Gerrit!   
      
   20 May 2022 13:01, Gerrit Kuehn wrote to Kai Richter:   
      
    KR>> I thought so too and i do have sda1 /boot/efi and sda3 /boot. But    
    KR>> /boot/efi is empty.   
      
   then efi is not installed with grub ?   
      
    GK> Is there an entry in fstab for it?   
      
   uefi cant read fstab    
       
    GK> Maybe it is just not mounted?   
       
   +1    
      
    GK> Otherwise, have a look at the output of gdisk (or a similar tool) to    
    GK> locate your efi partition.   
      
   +1   
      
    GK>>> The BIOS will detect the EFI parition and start what is available   
    GK>>> there.   
      
    KR>> Wouldn't that add a third place to manage boot partitions?   
    KR>> There is the boot priority list in the bios and the boot manager    
    KR>> grub.   
      
   both can use same data, if needed   
      
    GK> The BIOS lists the bootable EFI partitions it found. Mine typically    
    GK> look like this:   
      
    GK> -+-   
    GK> ~# l /boot/efi/EFI/BOOT/   
    GK> -rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 139264 May  5 18:55 BOOTX64.EFI   
    GK> -+-   
      
   if installed via grub   
      
    GK> This is the default naming scheme that should always work. For    
    GK> everything else, you might have to set up boot environment variables    
    GK> (usually, efibootmgr is your friend there).   
      
   good   
      
      
    Regards Benny   
      
   ... too late to die young :)   
      
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