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From: Alec Ten Harmsel <alec@alectenharmsel.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] About to attempt EFI install, which modules to compile?
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2015 06:23:27 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <54F053AF.2090600@alectenharmsel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <EEEF5076-35FB-400D-9452-D28981795EDE@iki.fi>


On 02/27/2015 01:09 AM, 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)


If you're using grub2, you should not be manually editing grub.cfg, just
/etc/default/grub and running grub2-mkconfig. The computer I'm on right
now boots with EFI, and I've never had to manually touch grub.cfg.

Alec


  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-02-27 11:23 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 [this message]
2015-02-28 10:56       ` Matti Nykyri
2015-02-27 11:42   ` German
2015-02-27 12:08     ` Neil Bothwick
2015-02-27 19:35       ` Mick
2015-02-27  9:06 ` Neil Bothwick

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