On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 2:03 AM, German <gentgerman@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2 Mar 2015 01:41:19 -0600
> Canek Peláez Valdés <caneko@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Mar 1, 2015 at 11:11 PM, German <gentgerman@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Out of curiosity I looked into my /boot partition and found two .efi
> > files. One is /boot/efi/gummiboot/gummibootx64.efi and another is
> > /boot/efi/boot/bootx64.efi. I remember I've created
> > /boot/efi/boot/bootx64.efi during install by copying kernel image file
to
> > it and supposedly it was for efibootmng. I think gummiboot has created
its
> > own gummibootx64.efi. Is that safe to delete */boot/bootx64.efi? Thanks
> >
> > They are the same image; do an md5sum of both, you'll see that they have
> > the same checksum.
> >
> > I believe Boot/BOOTX64.EFI is the default location where the "BIOS" (or
> > whatever is called in UEFI systems) looks for an image to boot,
> > and gummiboot/gummibootx64.efi is just a copy. I'm not sure, but I would
> > not delete it:
>
> gummiboot creates both copies of the file.
>
> Well, no, I have created */boot/bootx64.efi manually and
*/gummiboot/gummibootx64.efi was created by gummiboot install.

In my machines boot/bootx64.efi was created by gummiboot, and it's the same
ile as gummiboot/gummibootx64.efi (same checksum).

What does bootctl says?

Regards.
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Canek Peláez Valdés
Profesor de asignatura, Facultad de Ciencias
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México