Installer not putting anything in EFI

beandog

Hey guys,

So the installer works just fine, but it's not putting any entries in the EFI partition. I've done custom partioning because I've got other OSes on here (Windows and Mint). Is there a way to create the entry and get the kernel straight from the install media, or is there somewhere else it's available?

Thanks!

beandog

Okay I think I found part of the problem, the EFI partition is too small. So now I gotta figure out how to make it larger, or something ..

beandog

Well, I managed to make a second EFI partition, and I can manually make entries in there from my admin menu (Dell laptop), so I just need to find the kernel and its files and put it in there.

ericbsd

On the GhostBSD live session, you can mount the efi partition and create a ghostbsd folder.

ℹ️ NOTE
Replace * by the appropriate number.

sudo mkdir /mnt/efi
sudo mount -t msdosfs /dev/ada*p* /mtn/efi
sudo mkdir /mnt/efi/ghostbsd
sudo cp /boot/loader.efi /mnt/efi/EFI/ghostbsd/BOOTX64.EFI"

Once this is done, you clean and create the EFI.
Look if GhostBSD already exists:

sudo efibootmgr

If so, remove it:

sudo efibootmgr -B -b Boot000*

Now, you can create the GhostBSD entry:

sudo efibootmgr -c -l /mnt/efi/EFI/ghostbsd/BOOTX64.EFI -L GhostBSD

To active it:

efibootmgr -a -b Boot000*

To set it to boot as default:

efibootmgr -n -b Boot000*

beandog

I was working on my GhostBSD install tonight, and I realized I totally forgot to say thank you for your help! Thanks man. Ghost is awesome. 🙂 I'm using a VM to port my multimedia apps, and it is working flawlessly.