[gentoo-user] Re: GPT-UEFI-fstab questions

[James <wireless@tampabay.rr.com>]

Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina <zerochaos <at> gentoo.org> writes:

> > timeout=5
> > menuentry 'Pentoo' {
> >     insmod efi_gop
> >     insmod efi_uga
> >     insmod part_msdos
> >     insmod part_gpt
> >     root=(hd0,2)
> >     linux /boot/kernel-genkernel-x86_64-3.9.9-pentoo root=/dev/ram0
> > real_root= video= console=tty1 ro
> >     initrd /boot/initramfs-genkernel-x86_64-3.9.9-pentoo
> > }

> I would like to note that in pentoo-installer grub2 is marked
> experimental and I honestly don't expect it to work at all.
 
> I am beyond happy to accept patches that fix that, I currently lack time
> and substantial motivation to work on such things.  grub1 works.

> Thanks,
> Zero

Ahhhhhhhhhhh, you guys do exist; NICE piece of work! Sure, I'll figure it
out and drop you a line.   It'd be much easier on me if you activated my
request for a dev account...... 


Just for the record, quite a few folks are having troubles with (U)EFI 
and it appears that the kernel signature is quite often the culprit,
from my preliminary research [1]. You got any comments about that?

James

[1]  http://kroah.com/log/blog/2013/09/02/booting-a-self-signed-linux-kernel/