Re: [gentoo-user] About to attempt EFI install, which modules to compile?

[Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>]

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On Friday 27 Feb 2015 06:09:25 Matti Nykyri wrote:
> > On Feb 27, 2015, at 5:57, Matti Nykyri <matti.nykyri@iki.fi> wrote:
> > 
> > Make a partition for gentoo and format it. Untar stage3 and portage
> > snapshot to it (snapshot is faster than rsync). Chroot. Emerge portage
> > and grub. I copied kernel from my old system to /boot. If you don't have
> > this build a new one. Run grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg (mkdir
> > if it doesn't exists. (http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GRUB2)
> 
> Manually modify grub.cfg so that the root drive will match the setup of the
> new system. (Something like this /dev/sdb2 -> /dev/sda2 and hd1,2 ->
> hd0,2)
> 
> > Many asus mb's have bug in efi and require BOOTX64.EFI to be lower case =
> > bootx64.efi so rename it as necessary. My mb had that bug and a rename
> > was needed even though fat should be case insensitive.
> 
> Also disable secure boot. It's only for windows...

Not only, you can use it with Linux too, but you will have to start creating 
X509 certs (or use RHL's? ) and signing your kernel images.

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Regards,
Mick

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