Bug#772581: grub-install: Does not work on mixed mode EFI systems

[Steve McIntyre]

On Mon, Dec 08, 2014 at 08:02:17PM +0100, Hendrik Weimer wrote:
>Package: grub-efi-ia32
>Version: 2.02-beta2-15
>
>I just got an ASUS X205TA notebook, which has a Bay Trail 64-bit CPU and
>requires a 32-bit UEFI (no BIOS legacy mode). After installation, I
>tried to get a bootable system via "grub-install --target i386-efi":
>
>| Installing for i386-efi platform.
>| 
>| EFI variables are not supported on this system.
>| 
>| 
>| EFI variables are not supported on this system.
>| 
>| Installation finished. No error reported.
>
>This creates two files in the "EFI/debian" directory of the EFI system
>partition, but booting any of them manually from an EFI shell only
>results in a blank screen.

I've got grub-efi-ia32 working perfectly on exactly the same type of
system, using normal update methods. We even have support for these
systems directly in d-i. Can you retry please?

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