Where is Grub located?

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Hey Forum,

im interessted in understanding how Grub Bootloader is started by the UEFI/BIOS.
I always thought Grub is installed on the EFI/MBR Partition created when installing a Linux System, but why is there a grubx64.efi file on linux systems under /boot/efi folder?Isnt this the Grub bootloader itself, which is supposed to be saved in the EFI Partition?

Thx in advance for your answers
 


take this with a grain of salt, bc I'm not sure.
As far as I know, even if it is in another partition, it's simply mounted to that directory. You can mount storage mediums to specific directories.
 
Yeah, the boot files them selves are on the ESP (EFI system partition) that is (Normaly) mounted to /boot/efi
The grub config file (Normaly) is /boot/grub/grub.cfg and the file from which it is generated (using grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg) is /etc/default/grub. In this file are all relevant settings for the grub.
 
you can look at whats on efi partition and "do" things using efibootmgr eg my output :

Code:
bash-5.0# efibootmgr
BootCurrent: 0003
Timeout: 0 seconds
BootOrder: 0003,0000,9999
Boot0000* Slackware	HD(1,GPT,192a9aa1-9848-4329-8171-9253ffc0f920,0x800,0x32000)/File(\EFI\Slackware\elilo.efi)
Boot0001* USB Drive (UEFI) - Hard Drive	BBS(HD,,0x0)..GO..NO........o.B.H.T. .W.R.2.0.2.I.0.0.6.4.G. .E.7.0.2.9.0.F.5......
...
Boot0003* slackware-14.2+	HD(1,GPT,192a9aa1-9848-4329-8171-9253ffc0f920,0x800,0x32000)/File(\EFI\slackware-14.2+\grubx64.efi)
Boot0004* USB Drive (UEFI) - Hard Drive	BBS(HD,,0x0)..GO..NO........o.B.H.T. .W.R.2.0.2.I.0.0.6.4.G. .E.7.0.2.9.0.F.5..................


theres an elilo entry elilo being efi version of lilo since i was using that as my boot manager then i installed grub2

the grub entry points to : EFI\slackware-14.2+\grubx64.efi

and this is what i have in boot:

Code:
bash-5.0$ tree -l 2 /boot/efi/EFI
2 [error opening dir]
/boot/efi/EFI
├── Slackware
│   ├── elilo.conf
│   ├── elilo.efi
│   ├── initrd.gz
│   ├── initrd_old.gz
│   └── vmlinuz
└── slackware-14.2+
    └── grubx64.efi

so there is the grub64.efi in slackware14+ == slackware current ( i did system upgrade from slackware 14.2 to current)


for uefi info this is not a bad starting point : http://www.rodsbooks.com/linux-uefi/
 
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