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| 4 | <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
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| 5 | %general-entities;
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| 6 | ]>
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| 7 |
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| 8 | <sect1 id="ch-bootable-grub" role="wrap">
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| 9 | <?dbhtml filename="grub.html"?>
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| 10 |
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| 11 | <sect1info condition="script">
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| 12 | <productname>grub</productname>
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| 13 | <productnumber>&grub-version;</productnumber>
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| 14 | <address>&grub-url;</address>
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| 15 | </sect1info>
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| 16 |
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| 17 | <title>Using GRUB to Set Up the Boot Process</title>
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| 18 |
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[1c16a05] | 19 | <note>
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| 20 | <para>
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[c84ec38] | 21 | This section assume your system has UEFI support and you wish to boot
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| 22 | LFS with UEFI and GRUB built following the instructions in Chapter 8.
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| 23 | </para>
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| 24 | <para>
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| 25 | If you've installed GRUB for UEFI with optional dependencies following
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[0cbb853] | 26 | BLFS, you should skip this page, and configure GRUB with UEFI support
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[1c16a05] | 27 | using the instructions provided in
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[c0a0f25] | 28 | <ulink url="&blfs-book;postlfs/grub-setup.html">the BLFS page</ulink>,
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| 29 | but replace <parameter>--target=x86_64-efi</parameter> with
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| 30 | <parameter>--target=arm64-efi</parameter> for the ARM64 system.
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[1c16a05] | 31 | </para>
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[c84ec38] | 32 | <para>
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| 33 | If your system does not support UEFI or you don't want to use it,
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| 34 | you'll need to figure out how to configure the booting process of
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| 35 | the system on your own.
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| 36 | </para>
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[1c16a05] | 37 | </note>
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| 38 |
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[fcc02767] | 39 | <sect2>
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| 40 | <title>Introduction</title>
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| 41 |
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| 42 | <warning><para>Configuring GRUB incorrectly can render your system
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[37b5ac1] | 43 | inoperable without an alternate boot device such as a CD-ROM or bootable
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| 44 | USB drive. This section is not required to boot your LFS system. You may
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| 45 | just want to modify your current boot loader, e.g. Grub-Legacy, GRUB2, or
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[fcc02767] | 46 | LILO.</para></warning>
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| 47 |
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[c84ec38] | 48 | <para>Ensure that an emergency boot disk is ready to <quote>rescue</quote>
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[fcc02767] | 49 | the computer if the computer becomes unusable (un-bootable). If you do not
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[c84ec38] | 50 | already have a boot device, you can create one. To create a emergency
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| 51 | boot device for UEFI, consult section <quote>Create an Emergency Boot
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| 52 | Disk</quote> in
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| 53 | <ulink url="&blfs-book;postlfs/grub-setup.html">the BLFS page</ulink>.</para>
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[fcc02767] | 54 |
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[c84ec38] | 55 | </sect2>
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| 56 |
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| 57 | <sect2>
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| 58 | <title>Turn off Secure Boot</title>
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[fcc02767] | 59 |
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[c84ec38] | 60 | <para>LFS does not have the essential packages to support Secure Boot.
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| 61 | To set up the boot process following the instructions in this section,
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| 62 | Secure Boot must be turned off from the configuration interface of the
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| 63 | firmware. Read the documentation provided by the manufacturer of your
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| 64 | system to find out how.</para>
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[fcc02767] | 65 | </sect2>
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| 66 |
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| 67 | <sect2>
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| 68 | <title>GRUB Naming Conventions</title>
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| 69 |
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| 70 | <para>GRUB uses its own naming structure for drives and partitions in
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| 71 | the form of <emphasis>(hdn,m)</emphasis>, where <emphasis>n</emphasis>
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| 72 | is the hard drive number and <emphasis>m</emphasis> is the partition
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[8190ca0] | 73 | number. The hard drive numbers start from zero, but the partition numbers
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| 74 | start from one for normal partitions (from five for extended partitions).
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[fcc02767] | 75 | Note that this is different from earlier versions where
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| 76 | both numbers started from zero. For example, partition <filename
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| 77 | class="partition">sda1</filename> is <emphasis>(hd0,1)</emphasis> to
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| 78 | GRUB and <filename class="partition">sdb3</filename> is
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| 79 | <emphasis>(hd1,3)</emphasis>. In contrast to Linux, GRUB does not
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| 80 | consider CD-ROM drives to be hard drives. For example, if using a CD
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| 81 | on <filename class="partition">hdb</filename> and a second hard drive
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| 82 | on <filename class="partition">hdc</filename>, that second hard drive
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| 83 | would still be <emphasis>(hd1)</emphasis>.</para>
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| 84 |
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| 85 | </sect2>
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| 86 |
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| 87 | <sect2>
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| 88 | <title>Setting Up the Configuration</title>
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| 89 |
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[c84ec38] | 90 | <para>GRUB works by creating an EFI executable in the EFI System
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| 91 | Partition (ESP). You can find the ESP with:</para>
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| 92 |
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| 93 | <screen role="nodump"><userinput>fdisk -l | grep 'EFI System'</userinput></screen>
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| 94 |
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| 95 | <para>If no ESP exists on your hard drive (for example, you are building
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| 96 | LFS on a fresh new system with a Live CD as the host distro), read
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| 97 | <ulink url="&blfs-book;postlfs/grub-setup.html">the BLFS page</ulink>
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| 98 | for the instruction to create an ESP on your hard drive.</para>
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| 99 |
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| 100 | <para>If the ESP is not mounted at
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| 101 | <filename class="directory">/boot/efi</filename> (in the chroot),
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| 102 | mount it now:</para>
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| 103 |
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[c0a0f25] | 104 | <screen role="nodump"><userinput>mkdir -pv /boot/efi
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| 105 | mount /boot/efi</userinput></screen>
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[c84ec38] | 106 |
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| 107 | <note>
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| 108 | <para>The path to the device node is intentionally omitted in the
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| 109 | command. We expect the entry for mounting the ESP to
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| 110 | <filename class="directory">/boot/efi</filename> is already in
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| 111 | <filename>/etc/fstab</filename>. Add the entry before running the
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| 112 | command if you forgot to create an entry for the ESP in
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| 113 | <xref linkend="ch-bootable-fstab"/>.</para>
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| 114 | </note>
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[fcc02767] | 115 |
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| 116 | <para>The location of the boot partition is a choice of the user that
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| 117 | affects the configuration. One recommendation is to have a separate small
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[37b5ac1] | 118 | (suggested size is 200 MB) partition just for boot information. That way
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[fcc02767] | 119 | each build, whether LFS or some commercial distro, can access the same boot
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| 120 | files and access can be made from any booted system. If you choose to do
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| 121 | this, you will need to mount the separate partition, move all files in the
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| 122 | current <filename class="directory">/boot</filename> directory (e.g. the
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[8190ca0] | 123 | Linux kernel you just built in the previous section) to the new partition.
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[fcc02767] | 124 | You will then need to unmount the partition and remount it as <filename
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| 125 | class="directory">/boot</filename>. If you do this, be sure to update
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| 126 | <filename>/etc/fstab</filename>.</para>
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| 127 |
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[c7f74cd] | 128 | <para>Leaving <filename class="directory">/boot</filename> on
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[8190ca0] | 129 | the current LFS partition will also work, but configuration
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[fcc02767] | 130 | for multiple systems is more difficult.</para>
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| 131 |
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| 132 | <para>Using the above information, determine the appropriate
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| 133 | designator for the root partition (or boot partition, if a separate
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| 134 | one is used). For the following example, it is assumed that the root
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| 135 | (or separate boot) partition is <filename
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| 136 | class="partition">sda2</filename>.</para>
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| 137 |
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| 138 | <para>Install the GRUB files into <filename
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[c84ec38] | 139 | class="directory">/boot/grub</filename> and the GRUB EFI executable into
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[53415749] | 140 | <filename class="directory">/boot/efi/EFI/BOOT/BOOTAA64.EFI</filename>:</para>
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[fcc02767] | 141 |
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| 142 | <warning>
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[c84ec38] | 143 | <para>The following command will overwrite
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| 144 | <filename>BOOTAA64.EFI</filename>. Do not run the command if this is
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| 145 | not desired, for example, if it contains a third party boot manager.
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| 146 | You can backup it with <command>cp</command> as it's a regular
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| 147 | file.</para>
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[fcc02767] | 148 | </warning>
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| 149 |
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[c84ec38] | 150 | <screen role="nodump"><userinput>grub-install --removable</userinput></screen>
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[fcc02767] | 151 |
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| 152 | <note>
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[c84ec38] | 153 | <para>
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| 154 | <parameter>--removable</parameter> may seem strange here. The UEFI
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| 155 | firmware searches EFI executables for boot loaders in a hardcoded
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[53415749] | 156 | path, <filename>EFI/BOOT/BOOTAA64.EFI</filename> in the ESP, and other
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[c84ec38] | 157 | boot loader paths listed in the EFI variables. We've not installed
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| 158 | the utilities for manipulating EFI variables so we need to install
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| 159 | the EFI executable into the hardcoded path. The hardcoded path is
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| 160 | usually used by removable devices (for example, USB thumb devices)
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| 161 | so the <command>grub-install</command> option for this purpose is
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| 162 | named <parameter>--removable</parameter>.
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| 163 | </para>
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| 164 | <para>
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| 165 | UEFI implementation usually prefers the boot loaders with paths
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| 166 | recorded in an EFI variable, to the boot loader with the hardcoded
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| 167 | search path. You may need to invoke the boot device selection menu
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| 168 | or setting interface of your EFI firmware on next boot to explicitly
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| 169 | select the bootloader.
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| 170 | </para>
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| 171 | <para>
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| 172 | Some UEFI implementation may completely skip the hardcoded path if
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| 173 | there are other boot loaders in the same hard drive with paths
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| 174 | recorded in an EFI variable. Then you need to create an EFI
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| 175 | variable for the newly installed boot loader. Install
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| 176 | <ulink url="&blfs-book;postlfs/efibootmgr.html">efibootmgr</ulink>,
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| 177 | then run the following commands:
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[c0a0f25] | 178 |
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[c84ec38] | 179 | <screen role="nodump"><userinput>mount -v -t efivarfs efivarfs /sys/firmware/efi/efivars
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[c0a0f25] | 180 | efibootmgr -B -L LFS || true
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[8f641ee] | 181 | efibootmgr -c -L LFS -l '\EFI\BOOT\BOOTAA64.EFI' -d /dev/sda
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[c0a0f25] | 182 | umount /sys/firmware/efi/efivars</userinput></screen>
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| 183 |
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[c84ec38] | 184 | Replace <filename>/dev/sda</filename> with the device node of the
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[c0a0f25] | 185 | hard drive where you are installing GRUB into. For some UEFI
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| 186 | firmwares, <option>-e 3</option> option may be needed for the
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| 187 | <command>efibootmgr -c</command> command.
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[c84ec38] | 188 | </para>
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[fcc02767] | 189 | </note>
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| 190 |
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| 191 | <!-- This does not seem to be true any more
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| 192 | <note><para><application>grub-install</application> is a script and calls another
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| 193 | program, grub-probe, that may fail with a message "cannot stat `/dev/root'".
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| 194 | If so, create a temporary symbolic link from your root partition to /dev/root:</para>
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| 195 |
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| 196 | <screen role="nodump"><userinput>ln -sv /dev/sda2 /dev/root</userinput></screen>
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| 197 |
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| 198 | <para>The symbolic link will only be present until the system is rebooted.
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| 199 | The link is only needed for the installation procedure.
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| 200 | </para></note>
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| 201 | -->
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| 202 | </sect2>
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| 203 |
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| 204 | <sect2 id="grub-cfg">
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| 205 | <title>Creating the GRUB Configuration File</title>
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| 206 |
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| 207 | <para>Generate <filename>/boot/grub/grub.cfg</filename>:</para>
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| 208 |
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[3d7b4f6] | 209 | <screen><userinput>cat > /boot/grub/grub.cfg << "EOF"
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[fcc02767] | 210 | <literal># Begin /boot/grub/grub.cfg
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| 211 | set default=0
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| 212 | set timeout=5
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| 213 |
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| 214 | insmod ext2
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| 215 | set root=(hd0,2)
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| 216 |
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[0ebfdf7e] | 217 | insmod all_video
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| 218 |
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[fcc02767] | 219 | menuentry "GNU/Linux, Linux &linux-version;-lfs-&version;" {
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| 220 | linux /boot/vmlinuz-&linux-version;-lfs-&version; root=/dev/sda2 ro
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| 221 | }</literal>
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| 222 | EOF</userinput></screen>
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| 223 |
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| 224 | <note><para>From <application>GRUB</application>'s perspective, the
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| 225 | kernel files are relative to the partition used. If you
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| 226 | used a separate /boot partition, remove /boot from the above
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| 227 | <emphasis>linux</emphasis> line. You will also need to change the
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| 228 | <emphasis>set root</emphasis> line to point to the boot partition.
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| 229 | </para></note>
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| 230 |
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[5353a19] | 231 | <note>
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| 232 | <para>The GRUB designator for a partition may change if you added or
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| 233 | removed some disks (including removable disks like USB thumb devices).
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| 234 | The change may cause boot failure because
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| 235 | <filename>grub.cfg</filename> refers to some <quote>old</quote>
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| 236 | designators. If you wish to avoid such a problem, you may use
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[8190ca0] | 237 | the UUID of a partition and the UUID of a filesystem instead of a GRUB designator to
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| 238 | specify a device.
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[5353a19] | 239 | Run <command>lsblk -o UUID,PARTUUID,PATH,MOUNTPOINT</command> to show
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[8190ca0] | 240 | the UUIDs of your filesystems (in the <literal>UUID</literal> column) and
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| 241 | partitions (in the <literal>PARTUUID</literal> column). Then replace
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[5353a19] | 242 | <literal>set root=(hdx,y)</literal> with
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[8190ca0] | 243 | <literal>search --set=root --fs-uuid <replaceable><UUID of the filesystem
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| 244 | where the kernel is installed></replaceable></literal>, and replace
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[5353a19] | 245 | <literal>root=/dev/sda2</literal> with
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[8190ca0] | 246 | <literal>root=PARTUUID=<replaceable><UUID of the partition where LFS
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| 247 | is built></replaceable></literal>.</para>
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| 248 | <para>Note that the UUID of a partition is completely different from the
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| 249 | UUID of the filesystem in this partition. Some online resources may
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[5353a19] | 250 | instruct you to use
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| 251 | <literal>root=UUID=<replaceable><filesystem UUID></replaceable></literal>
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| 252 | instead of
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| 253 | <literal>root=PARTUUID=<replaceable><partition UUID></replaceable></literal>,
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[8190ca0] | 254 | but doing so will require an initramfs, which is beyond the scope of
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[5353a19] | 255 | LFS.</para>
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| 256 | <para>The name of the device node for a partition in
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[8190ca0] | 257 | <filename class='directory'>/dev</filename> may also change (this is less
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| 258 | likely than a GRUB designator change). You can also replace
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[5353a19] | 259 | paths to device nodes like <literal>/dev/sda1</literal> with
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| 260 | <literal>PARTUUID=<replaceable><partition UUID></replaceable></literal>,
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| 261 | in <filename>/etc/fstab</filename>, to avoid a potential boot failure
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| 262 | in case the device node name has changed.</para>
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| 263 | </note>
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| 264 |
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[fcc02767] | 265 | <para>GRUB is an extremely powerful program and it provides a tremendous
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| 266 | number of options for booting from a wide variety of devices, operating
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| 267 | systems, and partition types. There are also many options for customization
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| 268 | such as graphical splash screens, playing sounds, mouse input, etc. The
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| 269 | details of these options are beyond the scope of this introduction.</para>
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| 270 |
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| 271 | <caution><para>There is a command, <application>grub-mkconfig</application>, that
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| 272 | can write a configuration file automatically. It uses a set of scripts in
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| 273 | /etc/grub.d/ and will destroy any customizations that you make. These scripts
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| 274 | are designed primarily for non-source distributions and are not recommended for
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| 275 | LFS. If you install a commercial Linux distribution, there is a good chance
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| 276 | that this program will be run. Be sure to back up your grub.cfg file.</para></caution>
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| 277 |
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| 278 | </sect2>
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| 279 |
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| 280 | </sect1>
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