Re: [gentoo-user] gummibootx64.efi OR bootx64.efi?

["Canek Peláez Valdés" <caneko@gmail.com>]

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On Sun, Mar 1, 2015 at 11:11 PM, German <gentgerman@gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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.

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

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