From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AEA68138ACE for ; Fri, 27 Feb 2015 19:35:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 89769E0ACC; Fri, 27 Feb 2015 19:35:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wg0-f42.google.com (mail-wg0-f42.google.com [74.125.82.42]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 65134E0A63 for ; Fri, 27 Feb 2015 19:35:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wggy19 with SMTP id y19so22306054wgg.13 for ; Fri, 27 Feb 2015 11:35:28 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=JDgPIBGubMmK4XB3Q9nfiT1ljWBRh6DZHiOjXDtOQqI=; b=zmGZSa+fEQeFjocRz041iVpF3MO5t01tri6/5Rpnz6Q+IG3aj1reJNpjAKI837HIVm +ogXprQT6hDzG+2a/J9TcTBvvgQMhD4ylteeXsVcaNJ7IZBZe3lE759ZUTZV/VghznWC geNRPfdvvfpuSUxUns50p9V5RV4Nn3rjGq0WCMWZFqnaWKUwvukDdkJRO/D0Wial+5Xl 5JrBGCDi35EXvglnKk8jXLAoltbgwSzsJ9G52aZ28+n5/7MyLg2bzN0Urcr8S2gfaLIY IJqH+TmZHezeSh5PwkiLIPt4H/v+NPo9MJMQAmLBryrc87XKo2aUQkHGkmuDnClt59gY lEvQ== X-Received: by 10.181.9.107 with SMTP id dr11mr9943050wid.40.1425065728034; Fri, 27 Feb 2015 11:35:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from dell_xps.localnet (230.3.169.217.in-addr.arpa. [217.169.3.230]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id fo17sm7279328wjc.19.2015.02.27.11.35.27 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Fri, 27 Feb 2015 11:35:27 -0800 (PST) From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] About to attempt EFI install, which modules to compile? Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2015 19:35:26 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/3.18.7-gentoo; KDE/4.14.3; x86_64; ; ) References: <20150226220236.86380f90bf91cdce3e769179@gmail.com> <20150227064245.42df02aaa3c35f8558fd3f8f@gmail.com> <20150227120833.37fc7293@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20150227120833.37fc7293@digimed.co.uk> 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-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart3279742.GLQfxQKURX"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha256 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201502271935.28070.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 91faf6cb-701d-4136-8905-bf460babdd2b X-Archives-Hash: 32e7c13ca906820da3bdac5100b86e09 --nextPart3279742.GLQfxQKURX Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Friday 27 Feb 2015 12:08:33 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 27 Feb 2015 06:42:45 -0500, German wrote: > > > Install grub: > > > grub2-install --target=3Dx86_64-uefi /to/your/partition > >=20 > > 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) >=20 > 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. Yes, as Neil says, GRUB, Gummiboot, rEFInd and friends offer flexibility in= =20 what you boot with and are particularly helpful - if not the only solution = =2D=20 if you want to boot a LiveCD iso image from your hard disk. On the other hand, if you have a DVD drive on the machine and you don't=20 multiboot continuously, then you can use the EFI stub kernel to boot very v= ery=20 fast. :-) http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/EFI_stub_kernel =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart3279742.GLQfxQKURX Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQEcBAABCAAGBQJU8McAAAoJELAdA+zwE4YehkkH/R5bb50Cy8nR57A6U6NQozrW 9MTl/rWwmTI3ewlg74BOFNpkR2aG3x4SC6bc502e1lksHYWLpGLSffvPSCQaxxx7 uhsDkY88NWbrIVp8VOWEE4BtTO/EkT64VZ63fUkH5V/eKmX4+vIEQ+s4izrAGv21 +CQY0JwFsqeVRwZHIS9H9ShwJEtILB5FWEt6v6/b6hU5FjuOV6+hvzS2purlGGZC lM3ycEu1twGEKzDw32yqCEnAIYBeTT17+5i9eR007C+u+klv7jSVS2WZQ3QnY3kI 0qFMxyb1gNTYNAUJ4bBRBKZ+1PP2ZMjIedVDl+YJLK+AuTb0/T10my4gBbp+QgQ= =sjo4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart3279742.GLQfxQKURX--