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Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2020 15:38:00 +0100
From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Preparing a blank NVMe as a boot drive...
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On Mon, 6 Apr 2020 16:26:27 +0200, tuxic@posteo.de wrote:

> Do I really need an image on an USBstick to boot into UEFI mode
> just to setup a system to boot into UEFI mode?

Yes. The bootloader needs access to the EFI variables to set itself up
and those are only present when booting with EFI.

You may also want to consider using something other than GRUB for EFI
booting. Either systemd-boot (this package is for non-systemd users, it
is already included with systemd) or reFind.


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