Re: UEFI + Raid

From	Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: UEFI + Raid
Date	2017-05-17 20:30 +0200
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Le 17/05/2017 à 20:07, Sam Smith a écrit :
> On 05/16/2017 12:40 PM, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
>>
>> Because of what I left quoted just above, I advise again using "debian"
>> as a sub-chain in the ID, because such entry may be deleted by a later
>> uncautious invocation of grub-install.
>
> Wait, it (grub-install?) deletes anything with "debian" in it? Is that

Yes.

> only when it is invoked with "debian" as the bootloader id? That seems

When it is invoked without --bootloader-id, which results in using the 
default name "debian".

> troubling. What if I named it to "windows", would it then go delete all
> my windows installs?

I have not tested this.

Anyway, on UEFI machines with only one boot loader (per disk if RAID), I 
don't rely on EFI boot entries (too flaky) and install GRUB in the 
"removable device path" (default EFI path) with --removable.

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UEFI + Raid Sam Smith <debian@net153.net> - 2017-05-09 02:00 +0200
  Re: UEFI + Raid Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com> - 2017-05-09 14:40 +0200
  Re: UEFI + Raid Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2017-05-10 00:50 +0200
    Re: UEFI + Raid Sam Smith <debian@net153.net> - 2017-05-11 01:00 +0200
      Re: UEFI + Raid Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2017-05-11 07:30 +0200
        Re: UEFI + Raid Sam Smith <debian@net153.net> - 2017-05-16 19:20 +0200
          Re: UEFI + Raid Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2017-05-16 19:50 +0200
          Re: UEFI + Raid Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2017-05-16 19:50 +0200
            Re: UEFI + Raid Sam Smith <debian@net153.net> - 2017-05-17 20:10 +0200
              Re: UEFI + Raid Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2017-05-17 20:30 +0200

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