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Description of problem: 1. Section E.3 of the installation manual: https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Installation_Guide/s1-grub-installing.html talks about installing various stages of the grub and the destination of the install being the MBR. But that is not true on a UEFI system all that is required is to install grub.conf and grub.efi in /boot/efi/EFI/redhat. 2. The default grub.conf contains a "device" line like this. device (hd0) HD(1,800,fa000,48138806-3f64-4d32-b4b1-a5a32fae6c66) There is nothing in the documentation that describes a line using this syntax (there is documentation on a "device" command but not using that syntax). It appears to be defining (hd0) to be the hard disk with the 4 characteristics specified in the (...), but what are the 4 items in the (...)? Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): GRUB/UEFI Documentation How reproducible: N/A Steps to Reproduce: See the RHEL-6 installation guide link: https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Installation_Guide/s1-grub-installing.html Actual results: No proper documentation for GRUB on UEFI system. Expected results: There should be proper documentation in RHEL-6 installation guide like: 1) How grub-install works on UEFI based system. 2) What is the 'device' parameter in grub.conf of a UEFI system. For example: device (hd0) HD(1,800,fa000,48138806-3f64-4d32-b4b1-a5a32fae6c66) The meaning of above line is: (hd0): references /boot/grub/device.map device HD(): The media type (harddrive). There's also CD, Vendor, File, UnknownMedia, UnknownBIOS. These each take unique parameters. 1: partition number (starts at 1) 800: partition start fa000: partition size 48138806-3f64-4d32-b4b1-a5a32fae6c66: partition signature But its no where documented. Additional info:
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Created attachment 961720 [details] A grub.cfg file from UEFI system
Released as part of the RHEL6.7 GA release.
Sorry, closed this by accident.