On Wed, 2019-05-29 at 13:50 +0200, Michal Schorm 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.
That sounds correct, yes. For background, IIRC this split was done to
allow the special case of Baytrail-like systems (which have 64-bit CPUs
and on which you can install an x86_64 OS, but whose firmwares are 32-
bit and so require a 32-bit EFI bootloader) to work. I *think* on such
systems both grub2-efi-x64 and grub2-efi-ia32 is needed, but IMBW.
> 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?
Current anaconda is designed to do this - it has a check to only
install grub2-efi-ia32 on systems with a 32-bit firmware. I'm not sure
if this wasn't in place when you installed, or if it went wrong
somehow...
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