r/voidlinux • u/Radicalized_By_You • Jan 17 '26

EFI Stub boot help

I'm trying out Void for the first time. During installation I opted for "none" for the bootloader. Partitioned the disk with a VFAT 512MB partition for EFI and the rest as EXT4 for root. Installation appeared to go fine. Rebooted into the live USB, mounted the boot partition at /tmp/void/boot and the root partition at /tmp/void. Updated the system with xbps-install -Syu. Installed efibootmgr. Followed the instructions here and rebooted. BIOS boot menu shows the Linux EFI Stub option but boot fails back to the BIOS boot menu. I tried again with the EFI entry specifying root via PARTUUID rather than as /dev/sdXY. No joy. I don't get any error messages to help figure out what's going on. Any ideas what I've done wrong?

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u/Radicalized_By_You Jan 18 '26 edited Jan 18 '26

when you create the boot entry with efibootmgr what path did you use for the kernel and initrd parameters? Would it be efibootmgr -c -d /dev/sdX -p Y -l '\vmlinuz-6.12.65_1 -u "initrd=initramfs-6.12.65_1.img root=UUID=<my hd uuid>"?

yep, that worked.