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StR@ng3r

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Registered: 2011-11-12

Posts: 65

efibootmgr does not care about my -d option

Hello there,

I am desperatly trying to get my system to boot from an esp on /dev/sdb1. /dev/sda is failing in an order to at least boot my system I need to boot from /dev/sdb1 All other partitions are RAID volumes.

I ran the grub-install stuff for efi systems and it would always create an entry for /dev/sda1 so I figured I go ahead and do it manually using efibootmgr myself.

However, all attempts to specify /dev/sdb as the device fail. I see no error but whenever I check with bootmgr -v I see the same GUID as in the entry created by grub-install which is the same GUID I get when running efibootmgr without the -d switch and also the same GUID that happens to belong to my /sda1 partition.

No matter if I enter
#efibootmgr -c -g -d /dev/sdb -p 1 -L arch -l /EFI/arch_grub/grubx64.efi

or
#efibootmgr -c

The resulting entry will always contain the GUID form dev/sda1

What am I doing wrong?