Re: How to combine package grub-efi-amd64 with grub-efi-ia32 and grub-pc ?
Thomas wrote:
>
>i am trying to reproduce a problem of grub-mkrescue. For that i need
>the directories
> /usr/lib/grub/i386-pc
> /usr/lib/grub/i386-efi
>alongside the already installed
> /usr/lib/grub/x86_64-efi
>in order to get an ISO for legacy BIOS and EFI together.
>Gentoo and Arch obviously can have this. I'm on Debian 12 (stable).
>
>My first idea was to just run apt-get "install" for "grub-pc" and
>"grub-efi-ia32".
>But
> dpkg -s grub-efi-amd64
>says:
> Conflicts: elilo, grub, grub-coreboot, grub-efi-ia32, grub-ieee1275, grub-legacy, grub-pc, grub-xen
>Possibly they would try to change my GRUB bootloader, which i don't
>want to do. I just need the directories with the files for the ISO.
>
>
>Would it be ok to install "grub-pc-bin" and "grub-efi-ia32-bin" ?
Yes. That's exactly the design of the packaging here: the -bin
packages contain the binary grub code that you're looking for, and
grub-pc and grub-efi-$arch do the configuration to use one of those
binaries to make your system bootable.
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