/boot/efi doesn't look like an EFI partition

GNA · 2014-01-12 11:03:15

Hey,
I created an EFI System Partition, mounted it to /boot/efi and GRUB complains that it does not look like an EFI Partition.

gdisk tells me that its in fact an ef00 (EFI Partition).

What's wrong?

Thank you for help!

Last edited by GNA (2014-01-12 11:05:08)

graysky · 2014-01-12 11:18:31

Is it fat32? How did you attempt to install grub? For me:

grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot/efi --bootloader-id=grub --recheck

GNA · 2014-01-12 11:41:43

It is fat32.

grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot/efi --bootloader-id=grub --recheck --debug

Last edited by GNA (2014-01-12 11:42:54)

graysky · 2014-01-12 11:50:36

GNA wrote:

I created an EFI System Partition, mounted it to /boot/efi and GRUB complains that it does not look like an EFI Partition.
gdisk tells me that its in fact an ef00 (EFI Partition).
What's wrong?

Post the output from GRUB complaining... also (I have to ask), are you sure your motherboard is an EFI board?

GNA · 2014-01-12 21:15:35

its was the default output except for the last line: /dev/sda4 does not look like an EFI Partition.

I changed to gummiboot and it worked without any trouble. As I was never a fan of grub2 this solves my problem.

srs5694 · 2014-01-12 23:16:41

It's conceivable that the GRUB script was looking for an "EFI" directory in the partition's root. If the filesystem was freshly created, that wouldn't be present.

ManFrommArch · 2014-01-13 00:37:05

I have the same issue trying with gummiboot right now... Do we need to reboot maybe? gdisk says something about this but then it prints ef00

TheSaint · 2014-01-13 15:42:31

Making the partition is necessary to reboot then do the rest.

GNA · 2014-01-14 14:12:07

I tried gummiboot after rebooting so this might be the case.

If you could try out if grub works for you after rebooting and the assumption turns our being true please edit the wiki here so others can learn from this

Last edited by GNA (2014-01-14 14:12:54)

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