EFI KickStart + grub (partition) in versions 6.x

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I have come across an issue when working with Kickstarting EFI based systems. It seems grub (despite using the manual regarding the bootloader option) is not installing correctly as I must manually specify the bootable EFI partition post installation.

This is what I am using for the kickstart option;

bootloader --location=partition --driveorder=sda --append="rhgb quiet crashkernel=512M audit=1"

When examining the disk I am unable to locate the traditional grub information.

It is a valid GPT EFI partition according to parted;

$ parted -sl | less
Model: VMware, VMware Virtual S (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 21.5GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt

Number  Start   End     Size    File system  Name  Flags
 1      1049kB  525MB   524MB   fat16              boot
 2      525MB   1050MB  524MB   ext4
 3      1050MB  21.5GB  20.4GB                     lvm

As you can see there is no grub information found

$ dd if=/dev/sda1 bs=1 count=512 | xxd
0000000: eb3c 906d 6b64 6f73 6673 0000 0210 1000  .<.mkdosfs......
0000010: 0200 0200 00f8 0001 3f00 ff00 0000 0000  ........?.......
0000020: 00a0 0f00 0000 293f c4e8 1820 2020 2020  ......)?...     
0000030: 2020 2020 2020 4641 5431 3620 2020 0e1f        FAT16   ..
0000040: be5b 7cac 22c0 740b 56b4 0ebb 0700 cd10  .[|.".t.V.......
0000050: 5eeb f032 e4cd 16cd 19eb fe54 6869 7320  ^..2.......This 
0000060: 6973 206e 6f74 2061 2062 6f6f 7461 626c  is not a bootabl
0000070: 6520 6469 736b 2e20 2050 6c65 6173 6520  e disk.  Please 
0000080: 696e 7365 7274 2061 2062 6f6f 7461 626c  insert a bootabl
0000090: 6520 666c 6f70 7079 2061 6e64 0d0a 7072  e floppy and..pr
00000a0: 6573 7320 616e 7920 6b65 7920 746f 2074  ess any key to t
00000b0: 7279 2061 6761 696e 202e 2e2e 200d 0a00  ry again ... ...
00000c0: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000  ................
00000d0: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000  ................
00000e0: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000  ................
00000f0: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000  ................
0000100: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000  ................
0000110: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000  ................
0000120: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000  ................
0000130: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000  ................
0000140: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000  ................
0000150: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000  ................
0000160: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000  ................
0000170: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000  ................
0000180: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000  ................
0000190: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000  ................
00001a0: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000  ................
512+0 records in
512+0 records out
512 bytes (512 B) copied, 0.00136578 s, 375 kB/s

If I manually step through the BIOS to locate the grub.efi file I can boot the system. Am I just assuming that EFI will simply load the OS like the older 8086 BIOS ROM code?

jg

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