Skip to content
New issue

Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community.

By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.

Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account

No boot entry for GRUB on UEFI #143

Open
chilledfrogs opened this issue Aug 16, 2020 · 2 comments
Open

No boot entry for GRUB on UEFI #143

chilledfrogs opened this issue Aug 16, 2020 · 2 comments

Comments

@chilledfrogs
Copy link

chilledfrogs commented Aug 16, 2020

Somewhat related to #131 from what I've seen but doesn't seem to be entirely the same issue:

So I migrated to Void a few days ago and so far am very happy with it, I just had a mild scare upon installation because no matter what I did and after a few retries, my laptop claimed right after reboot always that it couldn't find anywhere to boot from (it's a Dell XPS 13 from 2018 if that helps, latest BIOS firmware to my knowledge). After trying a few things frantically that didn't work, I eventually looked into my BIOS configuration and found out that the boot entries were understandably wiped, but no EFI boot entry was put in automatically for GRUB as I would have kinda expected, and therefore I just had to add it manually and all was fine.

I would assume this is unintended behaviour, but please feel free to tell me if I should have just realized this on my own, since the Void documentation, at least as far as I could tell, doesn't mention this eventuality anywhere.

Also, this systematically showed up in one of the last steps of autoconfig before the installer claimed it had finished its work, I couldn't find much for what it's supposed to mean though, not sure whether it's related or should be a new issue (sorry for the quality, it shows up only briefly-ish, on the left what's cut off says "configuration error":
HOME_MODE config error

@ericonr
Copy link
Member

ericonr commented Feb 19, 2021

Regarding the screenshot, this is the same issue as seen in #181 ... Just that the PAM update made it fatal instead of just a warning.

If I had seen your issue earlier I might have known to check for it when doing the PAM update, so thanks very much for reporting.

but no EFI boot entry was put in automatically for GRUB as I would have kinda expected, and therefore I just had to add it manually and all was fine.

I would have expected GRUB to create the entry automatically... But I could be wrong, I remember having some weird issue with the only installer + UEFI install I did.

@classabbyamp
Copy link
Member

seems like maybe this efi implementation doesn't like updating the boot entries, so grub-install --removable may fix it (that puts the grub binary at /boot/efi/EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.EFI, which is the default/fallback path)

Sign up for free to join this conversation on GitHub. Already have an account? Sign in to comment
Labels
None yet
Projects
None yet
Development

No branches or pull requests

3 participants