From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] About to attempt EFI install, which modules to compile?
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2015 12:08:33 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150227120833.37fc7293@digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150227064245.42df02aaa3c35f8558fd3f8f@gmail.com>
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On Fri, 27 Feb 2015 06:42:45 -0500, German wrote:
> > Install grub:
> > grub2-install --target=x86_64-uefi /to/your/partition
>
> Are you sure that grub is needed for EFI system? I doubt it. I used
> efibootmgr as per gentoo handbook. And it was also said that it is
> possible to boot EFI system without anything at all ( e.g. grub,
> efibootmgr)
No, GRUB is not needed. However, using some sort of boot manager makes
life easier and a number of us here are happy with Gummiboot.
--
Neil Bothwick
Why do programmers get Halloween and Christmas confused?
Because oct 31 is the same as dec 25.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-02-27 12:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-02-27 3:02 [gentoo-user] About to attempt EFI install, which modules to compile? German
2015-02-27 3:33 ` Dale
2015-02-27 3:54 ` German
2015-02-27 4:57 ` Matti Nykyri
2015-02-27 6:09 ` Matti Nykyri
2015-02-27 6:30 ` Mick
2015-02-27 11:23 ` Alec Ten Harmsel
2015-02-28 10:56 ` Matti Nykyri
2015-02-27 11:42 ` German
2015-02-27 12:08 ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2015-02-27 19:35 ` Mick
2015-02-27 9:06 ` Neil Bothwick
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