From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id F3A671396D0 for ; Tue, 19 Sep 2017 11:07:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D69DC1FC116; Tue, 19 Sep 2017 11:07:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smarthost01a.mail.zen.net.uk (smarthost01a.mail.zen.net.uk [212.23.1.1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7C3D61FC009 for ; Tue, 19 Sep 2017 11:07:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [82.69.80.10] (helo=peak.localnet) by smarthost01a.mail.zen.net.uk with esmtps (TLS1.2:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA256:256) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1duGMm-0001fx-Kl for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 19 Sep 2017 11:07:00 +0000 From: Peter Humphrey To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Dual booting with Windows 10 Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2017 12:07:00 +0100 Message-ID: <13098056.R6UtJfJDnb@peak> In-Reply-To: References: <4214538.FFuQGbLWd5@peak> <9974947.hHFfXzH0oW@peak> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Originating-smarthost01a-IP: [82.69.80.10] Feedback-ID: 82.69.80.10 X-Archives-Salt: bddce92a-76eb-4588-89e2-13784f62663f X-Archives-Hash: 6e81587b4b8c70da7f8a26bd33d3b1c2 On Tuesday, 19 September 2017 05:15:46 BST R0b0t1 wrote: > Having checked bootctl's documentation it should be changing EFI variables > (it may manage kernels also, I am not entirely sure). Are you sure this > isn't related to the bug Mick mentioned? If it is then I am unsure why > efibootmgr works. What, efivars being mounted read-only? Quite sure. If I don't remount them read-write, "bootctl install" refuses to run at all. > Now it's fixed (by using something else) and I can't expect you to care, > but I am left perplexed. I wonder. Just possibly this is a motherboard or UEFI BIOS problem (or one I've caused it). When I first received the machine I couldn't get grub to install and run, no matter what I tried. That was 18 months ago, since when it's been running apparently happily using bootctl. -- Regards, Peter.