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#30311 efi-less grub install fails

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From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
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Subject: Re: bug#30311: efi-less grub install fails
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Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org> writes:

>> I don’t understand this patch.  How does it work?
>>
>> What is the effect of replacing /sys/firmware/efi with
>> /sys/firmware/non-efi?
>
> It won't find EFI since it's looking in the wrong place.
>
> That's what we want :)

So the value “/sys/firmware/non-efi” might as well be
“/does-not-exist”?

Your patch subject says “Make sure that non-EFI grub doesn't try to use
EFI”, but the problem I had was that GRUB insisted on being passed a
“--target” option.  That was with a GRUB installation on a system in
legacy mode.  Do you mean that this failed because GRUB erroneously
attempted an EFI installation?

I’m thoroughly confused.

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