Comment 39 for bug 1277865
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| Kevin O'Gorman (kogorman-pacbell) wrote | #39 |
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This affects me too. I have a newer Toshiba laptop that came with Windows 8.1, and it boots UEFI. I created space using windows tools, created a Linux swap and root partition, and installed Xubuntu 14.04.1 from DVD.
Everything went as expected except the grub-install, it seems.
If I boot from the DVD, my partitions are there. I can bind-mount dev, proc and sys to the hard drive and chroot to the installed Xubuntu. But when I try 'grub-install' it says it's installing for x86-64-efi, which is correct, but then it also says cannot find EFI directory. The machine is booting Windows no matter what I do.
As I understand it, the EFI directory is a smallish VFAT partition. The disk has that as /dev/sda2, and it's 260 MiB and has the "boot" flag set. What else does GRUB need?