Reinstalling the bootloader

Tue Apr 8 22:29:32 UTC 2014

On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 5:16 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2014-04-03 at 19:44 -0700, Andrew Lutomirski wrote:
>> On Apr 3, 2014 7:18 PM, "Reindl Harald" <h.reindl at thelounge.net> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Am 04.04.2014 03:08, schrieb Andrew Lutomirski:
>> > > Once upon a time (Fedora 15? -- I've lost track), it was possible to reinstall the bootloader using grub-install.
>> >
>> > besides that it is the wrong list:
>>
>> What's the right list?
>>
>> > grub2-install
>>
>> $ grub2-install
>> /usr/sbin/grub2-probe: error: cannot find a GRUB drive for /dev/sda1.
>> Check your device.map.
>>
>> This is with efi.  WTF is a GRUB drive?  Will this set up the boot
>
> You don't want to be doing any kind of grub(2)-install if you actually
> have a native UEFI install. That's not how UEFI booting works. But it's
> difficult to divine from your emails how your system is actually set up
> at all.

Sorry for the delay -- I was out of town.

>
> Can you please answer the following?
>
> 1. What is the output of 'efibootmgr -v'?

$ sudo efibootmgr -v
BootCurrent: 0008
Timeout: 1 seconds
BootOrder: 0003,0008,0000,0001
Boot0000* SATA2:PLDS DVD+/-RW DH-16A6S      BIOS(10,0,00)
Boot0001* SATA1:INTEL SSDSC2BB600G4         BIOS(11,0,00)
Boot0003* grub
HD(1,800,40000,75f192ff-2a82-4e4e-b83c-c41f3bb39847)File(\EFI\grub\grubx64.efi)
Boot0008* UEFI: Built-in EFI Shell
Vendor(5023b95c-db26-429b-a648-bd47664c8012,)AMBO
Boot000A* Hard Drive     BIOS(2,0,00)AMGOAMNO........o.I.N.T.E.L.
.S.S.D.S.C.2.B.B.6.0.0.G.4............ ........A......................
.....>..Gd-.;.A..MQ..L.T.B.L.W.3.3.4.3.A.0.F.W.0.6.T.0.N.G.
. ... ...AMBO

This is definitely screwed up.  I can't fix it because any attempt to
change my efi variables results in an OOPS.  I can't report the OOPS
with abrt because of a correct but inconsequential kernel taint due to
#906568, which is probably fixed in 3.14.  So I was going to wait for
the 3.14 rebase or perhaps boot a custom kernel to see what helps.  I
haven't had time for that yet.

> 2. Do you have a /boot/efi/EFI/fedora/grub.cfg ?

No.  But I have a /boot/efi/EFI/redhat/grub.conf, attached.
/etc/grub.conf is a symlink to it.

That file, in turn, contains this:

device (hd1,2) HD(1,800,40000,49d25af2-6f79-4970-8b9e-dc3ccf762c2c)

which I had to fix, once I figured out what UUID went there.

This file has been abused over the years by grubby.  I like
Debian/Ubuntu's way of handling this *much* better.

> 3. Do you have a /boot/grub/grub.conf ?

No.

> 4. Do you have a /boot/grub2/grub.cfg ?

No.

The immediate cause of my need to reconfigure the bootloader was that
I changed hard disks.  Imaging the partition table and fs superblocks
directly causes all manner of problems because the UUIDs will be the
same if I have both disks in the machine at the same time.  So I
copied files, and at first all I got was a grub prompt.

It's currently mostly working, modulo the efibootbgr issue.  But I
don't actually know what to type into efibootmgr to fix it, the OOPS
notwithstanding.  I can probably figure it out once the OOPS is fixed.

My point, though, is that it would be great if either the wiki had
good instructions or, even better, if anaconda's bootloader
installation process were factored out into a command I could run.

--Andy
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# grub.conf generated by anaconda
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file.
# NOTICE:  You have a /boot partition. This means that all kernel and
#          initrd paths are relative to /boot, eg.
#          root (hd0,0)
#          kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/sda3
#          initrd /initrd-[generic-]version.img
boot=/dev/sda1
device (hd1,2) HD(1,800,40000,49d25af2-6f79-4970-8b9e-dc3ccf762c2c)
default=0
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd1,2)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
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