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 0D30F138010 for ; Sat, 13 Oct 2012 09:08:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A1BB721C01E; Sat, 13 Oct 2012 09:07:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from postler.lichtfels.com (postler.lichtfels.com [78.46.92.195]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26CA0E001D for ; Sat, 13 Oct 2012 09:06:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by postler.lichtfels.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 759212E214 for ; Sat, 13 Oct 2012 11:06:52 +0200 (CEST) Received: from postler.lichtfels.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (postler.lichtfels.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with LMTP id 20175-01 for ; Sat, 13 Oct 2012 11:06:51 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [172.32.99.26] (mail.oops.co.at [213.129.238.225]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by postler.lichtfels.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 8B3E8123E0 for ; Sat, 13 Oct 2012 11:06:51 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <50792F0D.6010402@xunil.at> Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2012 11:06:21 +0200 From: "Stefan G. Weichinger" Organization: oops! User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:15.0) Gecko/20120913 Thunderbird/15.0.1 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] UEFI boot, again References: <50770F01.1040805@xunil.at> <1350006756.27331.9.camel@troll> <5077D5C0.70105@xunil.at> <1350048135.11186.6.camel@rattus> <50781CD4.4000901@xunil.at> <507820E2.6060403@xunil.at> <1350082363.9049.4.camel@rattus> In-Reply-To: <1350082363.9049.4.camel@rattus> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4.4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.2a X-Archives-Salt: 2fd96c5e-6bc3-459a-8486-6f62026b4002 X-Archives-Hash: 86c59a2749ff9fc149c5992ef87c31b9 Am 2012-10-13 00:52, schrieb Bill Kenworthy: > another "feature" is you have to be booted via efi so the variables are > available so it can install itself - sorta catch 22 :( Yes, I know that. No problem, when I boot from that stick, I do that via EFI, so I get the correct environment. > I just remembered another step that I missed - I dont have the syntax > but "efibootmgr" - google for the correct options. Yes ;-) I do that for days now. What puzzles me: I get the entries into EFI: when I boot I see the entries created by efibootmgr, but when I chose one of the entries pointing to "GRUB2" or "gentoo" the PC tells me that the disk isn't bootable. And I still don't know what is missing. AFAIK that EFI system partition is allowed to be within the first 2 TB of the disk (easy on my 1 TB hdd), has to have the boot-flag set (in parted-terms), and must be type EF02. When EFI doesn't find something bootable on the disk, my interpretation is that it can't find that partition? S