grub2-tools and UEFI/GPT

[Adam Williamson]

On Wed, 2012-12-12 at 14:23 +0100, Stephan Bergmann wrote:
> On 12/12/2012 10:39 AM, Chris Murphy wrote:
> > UEFI is not BIOS. The command you were looking for is grub2-efi-install, whereas grub2-install is for BIOS systems. The package you should already have is grub2-efi. And on UEFI systems there are no boot sectors, there is a partition dedicated for boot managers/loaders as EFI applications called the EFI System partition which must be specified when using the install command.
> 
> Ah, turns out my machine was still on legacy grub (grub-efi package) 
> rather than grub2-efi after all.  (Though neither of the two packages 
> appears to contain a grub[2]-efi-install tool, at least not the Fedora 
> 17 rpms; but then again, I hopefully won't need to fiddle with that 
> again anyway...)

grub-efi was still default for F17. We are only going to grub2-efi with
F18.
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