grub2-install fails

[Tom H]

On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 2:59 PM, Gordon Messmer
<gordon.messmer at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 08/29/2015 03:20 AM, Tom H wrote:
>>
>> grub2-install works on non-SB systems.
>> And there's no reason that it shouldn't work on SB systems. Aren't the
>> grub and shim executables simply copied from "/usr/something"? So they
>> should be signed.
>
> Not according to the documentation, which indicates that:
> "grub2-install shouldn't be used on EFI systems. The grub2-efi package
> installs a prebaked grubx64.efi on the EFI System partition, which looks for
> grub.cfg on the ESP in /EFI/fedora/ whereas the grub2-install command
> creates a custom grubx64.efi, deletes the original installed one, and looks
> for grub.cfg in /boot/grub2/."
>
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/GRUB_2

I hadn't read that page. I stand corrected.

How nice that Fedora diverges from upstream. But since this is the
case, grub2-install should be patched to say so rather than tell the
user "Please specify --target or --directory"...