Also, it's IMHO worth mentioning, a package 'grub2-pc-modules' is
needed on BIOS systems in order to 'grub2-install' utility to work
--
Michal Schorm
Software Engineer
Core Services - Databases Team
Red Hat
--
On Wed, May 29, 2019 at 1:50 PM Michal Schorm <mschorm@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I'd like to propose tiny correction for the Fedora wiki page about GRUB2 [1].
>
> However I'm not confident enought to edit it prior to any discussions,
> so that's why I'm writing here.
>
> In the chapter "Updating GRUB 2 configuration on UEFI systems"
> In the section "Install the bootloader files"
> I believe, there should be an information added, that the 'grub2-efi'
> package *must* match your architecture. So e.g. for x86_64, you want
> the 'grub2-efi-x64' package.
>
> By default the 'dnf install grub2-efi' will find 'grub2-efi-ia32'
> package which doesn't contain the files you need for boot on x86_64
> system, nor pulls the correct package as a dependency.
>
> Also, on once of my old F28 Cinnamon system, I can see, that there are packages:
> $ dnf list installed | grep grub2-efi | awk '{ print $1 }'
> grub2-efi-ia32.x86_64
> grub2-efi-ia32-cdboot.x86_64
> grub2-efi-x64.x86_64
> grub2-efi-x64-cdboot.x86_64
>
> but I believe I only need the 'grub2-efi-x64.x86_64'.
> Given that, maybe the anaconda installation should be checked to not
> pull uneeded packages?
>
> Correct me, if I'm wrong, thanks.
>
>
>
> [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/GRUB_2
>
> --
>
> Michal Schorm
> Software Engineer
> Core Services - Databases Team
> Red Hat
>
> --
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