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List:       grub-help
Subject:    Re: about an grub 2.00 installation error, bug, defect
From:       Jordan Uggla <jordan.uggla () gmail ! com>
Date:       2014-10-29 4:36:22
Message-ID: CAHh2SOR=FGmE9KQL7-2dLWTuRnk1UMUsJyQ7xSW6y_eVtrUt+A () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 5:16 PM, Sun, Ning <ning.sun@intel.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I encountered an error when installing grub 2.00 on my Linux system(boot
> from EFI BIOS), the error showed "source_dir doesn't exist. Please specify
> --target or –directory"

That means that you don't have grub support for your platform,
presumably x86_64-efi, installed. You can just install the appropriate
package, grub-efi-amd64 in Debian, to resolve this problem.

> The error occurred after I run this command:
> #grub-install –boot-directory=/boot /dev/sda
> I can compile the grub 2.0 successfully on my linux system.

If you are compiling from source rather than installing via a package
manager, you should run ./configure with the parameter
"--with-platform=efi" to have grub's efi support built.

> Another hint is that currently my linux system use gummiboot as default
> bootloader…
>
> I run grub-install without parameters , same message shown on the screen

This is not a bug, so please do not CC bug-grub@gnu.org on any future replies.

-- 
Jordan Uggla (Jordan_U on irc.freenode.net)

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