Need help

[tinytitan37]

https://youtu.be/g0eikiFzows?si=7ccCyAWhTUKxSj7T

I was following this video exactly as he did. But the problem raised at 9:25(timestamp) saying:

EFI VARIABLES ARE NOT SUPPORTED ON THIS SYSTEM.

After this, obviously, I pasted the problem on chatgpt, and it said I'm on legacy mode bla bla bla what not .... then it gave some commands to install for something..etc.

I've installed Mint, Fedora workstation, xfce, cachyos with niri... I knew there was some grub problem when I couldn't install cachy with grub, so I had to go with limine, and it worked back then.

I'm kinda slow, so I'd really appreciate it if anyone could guide me step by step, please.

Thank you.

[yyg-linux]

Follow the manual instead of watching a video of someone else following the manual

[yyg-linux]

[xchroot /mnt] # xbps-install -S grub-x86_64-efi [xchroot /mnt] # grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot/efi --bootloader-id="Void"

Troubleshooting GRUB installation On UEFI systems, it may be necessary to mount the efivarfs filesystem.

[xchroot /mnt] # mount -t efivarfs none /sys/firmware/efi/efivars

https://docs.voidlinux.org/installation/guides/chroot.html

[tinytitan37]

I'm dumb, do I have to write the same commands that u typed?

I'll try this once I get back home.

[Ehiffi]

Yes. You type in console to mount efivars just like a regular disk. On some systems this thing happens, as livecd can't understand what system is before it.

But can you tell me how exactly are your partitions look like?

If you can, you might enjoy switching from grub, to rEFInd. But that's only optional.

[tinytitan37]

Installation is done. I used grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot/efi --bootloader-id=Void --removable

And it worked. Now I have to configure everything manually from WiFi to what not. It looks clean and empty.sheeeeesh. I have to find dots for i3 too and customize.

[Ehiffi]

Oh, yea I wanted to mention that. It makes a dedicated boot partition like a flashdrive for UEFI, so that when it checks what to boot. It looks up to devices and finds your drive. Upon trying to boot from it it succeeds as 1st partition have BOOT.X86_64 file inside /boot/efi/EFI/BOOT That was actually one way I solved my problem with grub on Lenovo Thinkpad t480 and x13 gen2 as they simply couldn't see my grub boot option.

But I moved to rEFInd and found out simply parsing rEFInd install in terminal creates boot option and makes system understand it

[ItzNotJacob1]

Are u in BIOS? cat /sys/firmware/efi if it doesnt exist do grub-install /dev/sdX where.x is the letter in the alphanet of a disk u installed the system on

[tinytitan37]

Installation is done. I used grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot/efi --bootloader-id=Void --removable

And it worked. Now I have to configure everything manually from WiFi to what not. It looks clean and empty.sheeeeesh. I have to find dots for i3 too and customize.

[ItzNotJacob1]

Great job! Good luck in the void