hello,

I don’t know if this is the right place to ask this question but could someone explain me how a UEFI system boots, I couldn’t find a guide online. I want to know because I don’t understand certain GRUB commands and how it get installed.

I just copy paste commands from Arch wiki and it just magically works without me knowing anything about it.

all the different distros use different grub command parameter and it’s so confusing. eg, Arch and Gentoo.

Arch command: grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=esp --bootloader-id=GRUB Gentoo command: grub-install --efi-directory=/efi

why both command is different? exactly where does grub gets installed?

sorry if this is a naive question but i really don’t understnad GRUB.

  • JustVik
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    12 hours ago

    Yes, x86 legacy is really confusing. Especially if you are going to write your own kernel or bootloader.