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   <note>
     <para>
-      This section assume your system has UEFI support and you wish to boot
-      LFS with UEFI and GRUB built following the instructions in Chapter 8.
-    </para>
-    <para>
-      If you've installed GRUB for UEFI with optional dependencies following
-      BLFS, you should skip this page, and config GRUB with UEFI support
+      If your system has UEFI support and you wish to boot LFS with UEFI,
+      you should skip this page, and config GRUB with UEFI support
       using the instructions provided in
-      <ulink url="&blfs-book;postlfs/grub-setup.html">the BLFS page</ulink>,
-      but replace <parameter>--target=x86_64-efi</parameter> with
-      <parameter>--target=arm64-efi</parameter> for the ARM64 system.
-    </para>
-    <para>
-      If your system does not support UEFI or you don't want to use it,
-      you'll need to figure out how to configure the booting process of
-      the system on your own.
+      <ulink url="&blfs-book;postlfs/grub-setup.html">the BLFS page</ulink>.
     </para>
   </note>
@@ -46 +35 @@
     LILO.</para></warning>
 
-    <para>Ensure that an emergency boot disk is ready to <quote>rescue</quote>
+    <para> Ensure that an emergency boot disk is ready to <quote>rescue</quote>
     the computer if the computer becomes unusable (un-bootable).  If you do not
-    already have a boot device, you can create one.  To create a emergency
-    boot device for UEFI, consult section <quote>Create an Emergency Boot
-    Disk</quote> in
-        <ulink url="&blfs-book;postlfs/grub-setup.html">the BLFS page</ulink>.</para>
-
-  </sect2>
-
-  <sect2>
-    <title>Turn off Secure Boot</title>
-
-    <para>LFS does not have the essential packages to support Secure Boot.
-    To set up the boot process following the instructions in this section,
-    Secure Boot must be turned off from the configuration interface of the
-    firmware. Read the documentation provided by the manufacturer of your
-    system to find out how.</para>
+    already have a boot device, you can create one.  In order for the procedure
+    below to work, you need to jump ahead to BLFS and install
+    <userinput>xorriso</userinput> from the <ulink
+    url="&blfs-book;multimedia/libisoburn.html">
+    libisoburn</ulink> package.</para>
+
+<screen role="nodump"><userinput>cd /tmp
+grub-mkrescue --output=grub-img.iso
+xorriso -as cdrecord -v dev=/dev/cdrw blank=as_needed grub-img.iso</userinput></screen>
+
   </sect2>
 
@@ -88 +72 @@
     <title>Setting Up the Configuration</title>
 
-    <para>GRUB works by creating an EFI executable in the EFI System
-    Partition (ESP).  You can find the ESP with:</para>
-
-<screen role="nodump"><userinput>fdisk -l | grep 'EFI System'</userinput></screen>
-
-    <para>If no ESP exists on your hard drive (for example, you are building
-    LFS on a fresh new system with a Live CD as the host distro), read
-    <ulink url="&blfs-book;postlfs/grub-setup.html">the BLFS page</ulink>
-    for the instruction to create an ESP on your hard drive.</para>
-
-    <para>If the ESP is not mounted at
-    <filename class="directory">/boot/efi</filename> (in the chroot),
-    mount it now:</para>
-
-<screen role="nodump"><userinput>mkdir -pv /boot/efi
-mount /boot/efi</userinput></screen>
-
-    <note>
-      <para>The path to the device node is intentionally omitted in the
-      command.  We expect the entry for mounting the ESP to
-      <filename class="directory">/boot/efi</filename> is already in
-      <filename>/etc/fstab</filename>.  Add the entry before running the
-      command if you forgot to create an entry for the ESP in
-      <xref linkend="ch-bootable-fstab"/>.</para>
-    </note>
+    <para>GRUB works by writing data to the first physical track of the
+    hard disk.  This area is not part of any file system.  The programs
+    there access GRUB modules in the boot partition.  The default location
+    is /boot/grub/.</para>
 
     <para>The location of the boot partition is a choice of the user that
@@ -136 +99 @@
 
     <para>Install the GRUB files into <filename
-    class="directory">/boot/grub</filename> and the GRUB EFI executable into
-    <filename class="directory">/boot/efi/EFI/BOOTAA64.EFI</filename>:</para>
+    class="directory">/boot/grub</filename> and set up the boot track:</para>
 
     <warning>
-      <para>The following command will overwrite
-      <filename>BOOTAA64.EFI</filename>. Do not run the command if this is
-      not desired, for example, if it contains a third party boot manager.
-      You can backup it with <command>cp</command> as it's a regular
-      file.</para>
+      <para>The following command will overwrite the current boot loader. Do not
+      run the command if this is not desired, for example, if using a third party
+      boot manager to manage the Master Boot Record (MBR).</para>
     </warning>
 
-<screen role="nodump"><userinput>grub-install --removable</userinput></screen>
+<screen role="nodump"><userinput>grub-install /dev/sda</userinput></screen>
 
     <note>
-      <para>
-        <parameter>--removable</parameter> may seem strange here.  The UEFI
-        firmware searches EFI executables for boot loaders in a hardcoded
-        path, <filename>EFI/BOOTAA64.EFI</filename> in the ESP, and other
-        boot loader paths listed in the EFI variables.  We've not installed
-        the utilities for manipulating EFI variables so we need to install
-        the EFI executable into the hardcoded path.  The hardcoded path is
-        usually used by removable devices (for example, USB thumb devices)
-        so the <command>grub-install</command> option for this purpose is
-        named <parameter>--removable</parameter>.
-      </para>
-      <para>
-        UEFI implementation usually prefers the boot loaders with paths
-        recorded in an EFI variable, to the boot loader with the hardcoded
-        search path.  You may need to invoke the boot device selection menu
-        or setting interface of your EFI firmware on next boot to explicitly
-        select the bootloader.
-      </para>
-      <para>
-        Some UEFI implementation may completely skip the hardcoded path if
-        there are other boot loaders in the same hard drive with paths
-        recorded in an EFI variable.  Then you need to create an EFI
-        variable for the newly installed boot loader.  Install
-        <ulink url="&blfs-book;postlfs/efibootmgr.html">efibootmgr</ulink>,
-        then run the following commands:
-
-<screen role="nodump"><userinput>mount -v -t efivarfs efivarfs /sys/firmware/efi/efivars
-efibootmgr -B -L LFS || true
-efibootmgr -c -L LFS -l '\EFI\BOOT\BOOTAA64.EFI' -d /dev/sda
-umount /sys/firmware/efi/efivars</userinput></screen>
-
-        Replace <filename>/dev/sda</filename> with the device node of the
-        hard drive where you are installing GRUB into.  For some UEFI
-        firmwares, <option>-e 3</option> option may be needed for the
-        <command>efibootmgr -c</command> command.
-      </para>
+      <para>If the system has been booted using UEFI,
+      <command>grub-install</command> will try to install files for the
+      <emphasis>x86_64-efi</emphasis> target, but those files
+      have not been installed in <xref linkend="chapter-building-system"/>.
+      If this is the case, add <option>--target i386-pc</option> to the
+      command above.</para>
     </note>