Interesting Grub issue [Solved]

[Aharon Schkolnik]

So, it turns out that I have two directories (each on their own mount
point):
/boot
/boot/efi

The attached grub.cfg was from /boot/efi -missing the windows entry
The correct grub.cfg was in /boot - including the missing windows entry

That makes sense since I ran grub2-mkconfig -o /etc/grub2-efi.cfg, and
/etc/grub2-efi.cfg is linked to /boot/grub2/grub.cfg

So, the file in /etc is linked to the file in /boot but the boot process
uses the file in /boot/efi (/boot/efi/EFI/fedora)


I would think that on a efi system, the file in /etc should be linked to
the file in /boot/efi

Sound like a bug?

Any idea how I ended up with bot /boot and /boot/efi

Any reason not to change the link?

Any reason not to delete /boot/grub2 and leave /boot/efi?

On Wed, 1 Mar 2023 at 21:27, Aharon Schkolnik <aschkolnik at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi.
>
> I have both Fedora and Windows 10 installed on my computer.
> I can boot either using bios settings.
> I have grub installed, and can boot to it.
> The grub menu shows me 3 linux kernels and UEFI firmware.
> It does not show me Windows.
> In the attached grub.cfg file there is the following entry:
>
> ### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ###
> menuentry 'Windows Boot Manager (on /dev/sdc3)' --class windows --class os
> $menuentry_id_option 'osprober-efi-3C10-1AFF' {
>         insmod part_gpt
>         insmod fat
>         set root='hd2,gpt3'
>         if [ x$feature_platform_search_hint = xy ]; then
>           search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root --hint-bios=hd2,gpt3
> --hint-efi=hd2,gpt3 --hint-baremetal=ahci2,gpt3  3C10-1AFF
>         else
>           search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 3C10-1AFF
>         fi
>         chainloader /efi/Microsoft/Boot/bootmgfw.efi
> }
>
> The entry is there, but it doesn't show when the machine boots/
>
> Any ideas?
>
>
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