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From: Bill Kenworthy <billk@iinet.net.au>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] UEFI boot, again
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 21:22:15 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1350048135.11186.6.camel@rattus> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5077D5C0.70105@xunil.at>

On Fri, 2012-10-12 at 10:33 +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
> Am 12.10.2012 03:52, schrieb Bill Kenworthy:
> > 
> > I am currently fighting this on a macbook air ... efi is crap, at least
> > the old grub was much easier to fix when it went wrong ...
> > 
> > if you are using grub 2  (I tried refit/refind/grub2/efi kernel and
> > finally settled on grub2)
> > 
> > try:
> > mount /boot
> > mount /boot/efi
> > `grub2-install --target=x86_64-efi`
> > `grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/efi/EFI/gentoo/grub.conf`
> > # have to sort this out one day, which is it using?
> > `cp /boot/efi/EFI/gentoo/grub.conf /boot/grub2/grub.cfg`
> > 
> > Sounds like your install line is what you are missing ...
> 
> Thanks a lot, Bill, I will look into this later this day.
> 
> What do mean by "install line" ?
> 
> Stefan
> 
> 

The grub2-install command above - with efi you have to "announce" the
the information to boot with.  I look at it as similar to grub
installing into the MBR, but thats a very loose metaphor :)

The problem you are describing might be that this "announcement" is
missing/corrupted.

The EFI directory is Apples (this is a macbook air), the grub2-mkconfig
searches for all the bootable kernels and builds a menu for them.  I
think this is close to default efi in layout as "EFI" seems to be in the
spec.

BillK




  reply	other threads:[~2012-10-12 13:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-10-11 18:25 [gentoo-user] UEFI boot, again Stefan G. Weichinger
2012-10-12  1:52 ` Bill Kenworthy
2012-10-12  8:33   ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2012-10-12 13:22     ` Bill Kenworthy [this message]
2012-10-12 13:36       ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2012-10-12 13:53         ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2012-10-12 22:52           ` Bill Kenworthy
2012-10-13  9:06             ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2012-10-13  9:38               ` Michael Hampicke
2012-10-13 10:13                 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2012-10-13 10:51                   ` Michael Hampicke
2012-10-13 13:07                     ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2012-10-13 14:35                       ` Michael Hampicke
2012-10-15 17:37                         ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2012-10-13  9:41               ` Bill Kenworthy
2012-10-12 13:01   ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2012-10-12 13:46     ` Stefan G. Weichinger

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