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|    Benny Pedersen to Gerrit Kuehn    |
|    uefi    |
|    22 May 22 11:18:32    |
      MSGID: 2:230/0 628a1bb5       TZUTC: 0000       REPLY: 2:240/12 6251c1a7       CHRS: LATIN-1 2       TID: hpt/lnx 1.9.0-cur 17-02-17       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 :)              --- Msged/LNX 6.1.2 (Linux/5.17.9-gentoo-dist (x86_64))        * Origin: gopher://fido.junc.eu/ (2:230/0)       SEEN-BY: 1/123 15/0 90/1 103/705 105/81 106/201 114/709 120/340 123/131       SEEN-BY: 124/5016 129/305 330 331 153/757 7715 154/10 201/0 203/0       SEEN-BY: 203/124 412 218/700 221/0 1 226/30 227/114 229/110 111 112       SEEN-BY: 229/113 206 317 400 424 426 428 452 470 550 616 664 700 230/0       SEEN-BY: 230/150 240/5832 266/512 280/464 5003 282/1038 292/854 8125       SEEN-BY: 301/1 310/31 317/3 320/219 322/757 341/234 342/200 396/45       SEEN-BY: 423/120 460/58 633/267 280 281 384 410 412 416 509 712/848       SEEN-BY: 770/1 2452/250 5020/545       PATH: 230/0 203/0 280/464 633/280 229/426           |
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