[CentOS] Location of grub.conf etc. with UEFI boot (CentOS 6)

Wed Oct 11 12:38:43 UTC 2017
Toralf Lund <toralf.lund at pgs.com>

Hi,

What's the proper/normal way of setting up GRUB for a CentOS 6 
installation that boots using UEFI? I've recently set up such a system, 
but for technical reasons I mentioned in an earlier post, I booted in 
"legacy" mode during installation, which meant I didn't get the correct 
UEFI boot configuration, and had to set it up subsequently "by hand". 
I've managed to get the system to start up, but I had to place grub.conf 
under "/EFI/redhat/" on the EFI partition; without it, the system only 
boots into the grub shell. Is this normal, or is GRUB supposed to be 
able to find grub.conf under /boot? If not, how are updates on kernel 
upgrade etc. supposed to get done? Do I need a symlink from 
/boot/grub/grub.conf to the EFI parition? And will grub-install help 
with some of this? I haven't dared to try it, as I'm afraid it may break 
everything because it assumes an "MBR" configuration, or something.

Also, how is /boot supposed to be set up anyway? Will it still normally 
be configured as a separate partition?

Yeah, I know, I could re-install in UEFI mode (as I think I know how 
now), but I'm hoping you will save me from the effort. I also have a 
workable system anyhow, but kernel upgrades could be an issue, and it's 
nice to know the "right" way of setting up.

Thanks,


  -Toralf