efibootmgr help

[Paul Cartwright]

On 08/28/2015 01:19 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote:
>
> Have another look.  Boot002 and Boot005 are Fedora, and they are
> identical.  They identify \EFI\FEDORA\shim.efi on partition 8.
> Notably, they don't refer to a kernel at all.
ok, so UEFI loads grub which loads grub.cfg which knows about the
different kernels ?
>
> UEFI loads and runs shim.efi, which is identified in the UEFI boot
> list.  shim.efi loads and runs grubx64.efi.  grubx64.efi loads its
> configuration file, then loads and runs a Linux kernel (or Windows). 
> The kernel runs /sbin/init on its root filesystem.
>
>>   , whatever they are.. except there
>> is no shimx64.efi ...
>>
>> -rwx------ 1 root root 1293304 Feb 17  2015 shim.efi
>> -rwx------ 1 root root 1287032 Feb 17  2015 shim-fedora.efi
>
> The full path relative to the system partition is
> "\EFI\ubuntu\shimx64.efi".  It's in a different directory than the
> Fedora-installed shim.efi.
I just mounted my ubuntu "/" partition and.... /boot/efi was... empty.
I'm pretty sure it was there when I booted ubuntu.. oh wait... /boot/efi
is a separate partition..  but it is already mounted, and it is fedora,
not ubuntu... arg....

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Paul Cartwright
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