On Wed, Jan 4, 2017, 5:39 PM Michael Eager <eager@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 01/03/2017 01:19 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
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> On Tue, Jan 3, 2017, 12:51 PM Michael Eager <eager@xxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:eager@xxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
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> On 01/03/2017 09:09 AM, Chris Murphy wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 8:06 AM, Michael Eager <eager@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:eager@xxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> >> The Fedora 23 installation on my laptop will not boot. grub.cfg
> >> is missing, for some reason.
> >
> > That's unusual. How do you know it's missing, and where is it normally located?
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> It should be under /boot/grub2. I found out that it was missing by booting,
> receiving a bare "grub>" prompt with nothing else, and spending time
> doing web searches, learning way too much about EFI,
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> Fedora's GRUB puts the grub.cfg on the EFI System partition. It's non-standard. Path is
> /boot/efi/EFI/fedora/
(On Fedora 23, I grub.cfg is in /boot/grub2.)
BIOS firmware, yes. Not if the firmware is UEFI.
How is grub supposed to find grub.cfs under EFI/fedora?
Fedora's grubx64.efi expects to find it in the same directory.
BTW, I got F25 installed on the laptop. Thanks for the help.
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