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rh995

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Registered: 2012-03-09

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Grub on efi

I have tried installing grub according to the instructions on the wiki out my efi system.
I get this error after running the grub-install command specified in the wiki:
couldn't open either sysfs or procfs directories for accessing efi variables
What is happening?
To clarify, I am booted into my arch system via syslinux, but would like to have grub so I can boot my windows hard drive as well.

jasonwryan

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Re: Grub on efi

You need to boot in UEFI mode...

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rh995

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Registered: 2012-03-09

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Re: Grub on efi

How?

jasonwryan

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Re: Grub on efi

Read the Wiki...

Or, if you have already booted in UEFI, modprobe the module.

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arokh

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Registered: 2013-05-30

Posts: 35

Re: Grub on efi

You need to do this:

modprobe efivars

For some strange reason the module was blacklisted by default on my system.