583646 – Warning the user about grub failing to set efi vars

Bug 583646 - Warning the user about grub failing to set efi vars

Summary: Warning the user about grub failing to set efi vars

Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME

Alias:	None

Product:	[OLD] Docs on www.gentoo.org
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Installation Handbook (show other bugs)
Hardware:	AMD64 Linux

Importance:	Normal normal (vote)
Assignee:	Docs Team

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Reported:	2016-05-21 10:41 UTC by Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
Modified:	2018-12-04 09:18 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users

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Description Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy 2016-05-21 10:41:15 UTC

My laptop is ASUS K501LX. When I followed the instructions to install grub in EFI mode, grub-install told me "EFI variables are not supported on this system". First time EFI user, I didn't know it meant that it failed to install EFI. As a result, the system completely failed to boot. I had to create a new EFI entry manually pointing to grub.

Maybe the user guide should warn something about this. It was a couple of frustrating hours. Of course the better solution is update install .iso image to never been in this situation (grub-install was running fine for me after installation), but that would be much harder I guess.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 nm (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2018-12-04 09:18:55 UTC

the wiki has a pretty robust section on getting the bootloader working on EFI systems. please read the relevant chapter in the wiki-fied version of the handbook:

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:AMD64/Installation/Bootloader

if there are any other suggestions, please use that page's "Discussion" tab. closing this old bug.