Re: UEFI searching for bootx64.efi - but debian has not created this in ESP - help please.
On Tue, Nov 22, 2022 at 01:10:08AM -0500, Felix Miata wrote:
>derrin@usa.net composed on 2022-11-20 13:33 (UTC):
>
>> UEFI searching for bootx64.efi - but debian has not created this in ESP - help please.Straight to the question
>
>> Option 1 How do I force the UEFI Boot Option to search one of the above efi files actually created by the debian install when UEFI will only search for bootx64.efi
>
>> This seems a voodoo task because during initial analysis the UEFI ignores looking for an instructed efi and over-rides looking for bootx64.efi
>
>Did you consider giving it what it wants? I've spent the past 7-10 days examining
>UEFI issues, while hesitant to actually experiment with perfectly functioning
>installations. I looked at the files in /boot/efi/EFI/, and it appears all you
>should need to do after apparently installing grub2-efi correctly by finding
>/boot/efi/EFI/debian/grubx64.efi, but with the UEFI BIOS being uncooperative. Try
>copying
No! Don't do things this way! See the wiki at
https://wiki.debian.org/UEFI#Force_grub-efi_installation_to_the_removable_media_path
instead.
> /boot/efi/EFI/debian/grubx64.efi
>to
> /boot/efi/EFI/BOOT/grubx64.efi
This will make no difference at all - nothing will look for files
there.
>and
> /boot/efi/EFI/BOOT/bootx64.efi
This is the removable media path, so it should boot this time. But it
may break in future - see the warning in that wiki page.
>and
> /boot/efi/EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.EFI
This is exactly the same path as the previous entry - the EFI System
Partition uses VFAT, which is case-insensitive.
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