On Wed, Jan 4, 2017, 5:39 PM Michael Eager <eager@eagercon.com> wrote:
On 01/03/2017 01:19 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
>
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> On Tue, Jan 3, 2017, 12:51 PM Michael Eager <eager@eagercon.com <mailto:eager@eagercon.com>> wrote:
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>     On 01/03/2017 09:09 AM, Chris Murphy wrote:
>      > On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 8:06 AM, Michael Eager <eager@eagercon.com
>     <mailto:eager@eagercon.com>> wrote:
>      >> The Fedora 23 installation on my laptop will not boot.  grub.cfg
>      >> is missing, for some reason.
>      >
>      > That's unusual. How do you know it's missing, and where is it normally located?
>
>     It should be under /boot/grub2.  I found out that it was missing by booting,
>     receiving a bare "grub>" prompt with nothing else, and spending time
>     doing web searches, learning way too much about EFI,
>
>
> Fedora's GRUB puts the grub.cfg on the EFI System partition. It's non-standard. Path is
> /boot/efi/EFI/fedora/

(On Fedora 23, I grub.cfg is in /boot/grub2.)

BIOS firmware, yes. Not if the firmware is UEFI.


How is grub supposed to find grub.cfs under EFI/fedora?

Fedora's grubx64.efi expects to find it in the same directory.



BTW, I got F25 installed on the laptop.  Thanks for the help.

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