[SOLVED] F16 DVD media on USB installs grub instead of grub2

[yaxattax]

Hi all,

Any idea why the DVD media is using grub as its bootloader and then installing it to disk instead of grub2? I really want the system to use grub2 instead of grub - I tried to replace it using grub2-install but I had some errors from grub2 about the method not being reliable, and when I tried with --force and rebooted, the bootloader just hung.

Advice appreciated,

Regards,

Yax

---------- Post added at 08:27 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:28 PM ----------

Adding bios_grub to /boot/efi mount point allowed grub2 to install correctly, but now the system has some issues booting and goes into an emergency mode ... I'll post more details when I reboot.

parted /dev/sda
set 1 bios_grub on

This causes bios_grub flag to be set for partition 1 on /dev/sda (assuming this is your boot device). This enables grub2 to install correctly onto the boot partition.

---------- Post added at 08:48 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:27 PM ----------

Dependency failed. Aborted start of /boot/efi
Dependency failed. Aborted start of Mark the need to relabel after reboot
Dependency failed. Aborted start of Relabel all filesystems, if necessary

This is the boot error I'm running into

---------- Post added at 10:11 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:48 PM ----------

Looking in dmesg I found

Job dev-disk-by\x2duuid-0B79\x2d0752.device/start timed out.
Job ... failed with result 'dependency'

where ... relates to some autorelabelling and mount jobs. Basically everything blows up after that.

I've no idea where to look to approach this issue. Help appreciated

[yaxattax]

Courtesy of http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=270759

Legacy GRUB is still used for EFI, and GRUB2 for non-EFI ... so I either have to find a way to get my BIOS to run non-EFI or try grub2-efi - I'd been using grub2, which loads the kernel fine but has some issues once we reach userspace ...

[yaxattax]

Installing grub2-efi worked fine. Supermicro X9SCV-Q