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authorPierre Labastie <pieere@linuxfromscratch.org>2019-01-21 18:25:55 +0000
committerPierre Labastie <pieere@linuxfromscratch.org>2019-01-21 18:25:55 +0000
commitd3c9936abf2ed65588b5411eb6c453ebf428bc74 (patch)
treecddb090b30e347620146fc0e42811a7e15223541 /chapter08
parent54739fefdf92cee25223ebd5d611610a984f6699 (diff)
Add a note about the --target
option for grub-install git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@11503 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
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diff --git a/chapter08/grub.xml b/chapter08/grub.xml
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--- a/chapter08/grub.xml
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@@ -113,6 +113,14 @@ xorriso -as cdrecord -v dev=/dev/cdrw blank=as_needed grub-img.iso</userinput></
<screen role="nodump"><userinput>grub-install /dev/sda</userinput></screen>
+ <note>
+ <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 chapter 6. If this is the case, add
+ <option>--target i386-pc</option> to the command above.</para>
+ </note>
+
<!-- This does not seem to be true any more
<note><para><application>grub-install</application> is a script and calls another
program, grub-probe, that may fail with a message "cannot stat `/dev/root'".