On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 3:14 PM, Martin Pluskal <mar...@pluskal.org> wrote: > On 4.2.2013 23:59, Greg KH wrote: >> On Mon, Feb 04, 2013 at 11:45:22PM +0100, Martin Pluskal wrote: >>> On 4.2.2013 23:34, Greg KH wrote: >>>> On Mon, Feb 04, 2013 at 08:13:58PM +0100, Martin Pluskal wrote: >>>>> Hi >>>>> I am curious what is the proper path for installation of efi binaries >>>>> (such as shim.efi) in gentoo. I don't think that installing them >>>>> directly into /boot/efi... is proper way - it seems to me that >>>>> /usr/lib64/efi or /usr/libexec/efi is more appropriate location for >>>>> them. What's your opinion? >>>> >>>> It depends on if you want the bootloader to use the binary or not. If >>>> you do, it needs to be in /boot/efi/, otherwise it will never be able to >>>> be run by the UEFI system. >>> Well, in order to boot you have to place .efi into /boot/efi, I am not >>> sure if it is the best idea to directly install everything with .efi >>> into /boot/efi. As far as I know, elilo is installed into /usr/lib/elilo >>> and grub2 is placed into /boot/efi by grub2-install. >> >> If elilo is in /usr/lib/elilo, the UEFI bios can not run the binary as >> it can't even see the filesystem to read the binary from. > Well it cannot, elilo.efi has to be placed to /boot/efi, install path is > however /usr/lib/elilo/elilo.efi. >> >> So how can anything that is .efi _not_ be in /boot/efi and still work? > I am talking about location to which .efi is supposed to be placed after > installation, not necessary from which it can work. >> >> Have you tried this out on your system with any success? > Why would I try it? I am not suggesting that it would work. After you > emerge elilo or grub2 you are still not able to boot unless you do other > steps (grub2-install or cp elilo.efi /boot/efi... && efibootmgr ... etc.) >> >> What exactly is the issue you are trying to solve here? > I am thinking about creating ebuild for shim. I was wondering if there > is any policy or suggestion where to place .efi binaries or how to > handle them in gentoo - it seems that there is none so perhaps there > should be agreed on what best practice is (install directly into > /boot/efi or install else and let user manually copy .efi to /boot/efi > or something completely different (eselect efi ...)). > > In suse default path is for example /usr/lib64/efi/: > ls /usr/lib64/efi/: > MokManager.efi elilo.efi shim-suse.efi shim.efi > xen-4.2.1_02-0.7.2.efi xen-4.2.efi xen-4.efi xen.efi > > yet /boot/efi contains only elilo.efi
Can you even guarantee that /boot is mounted when your package is installed? That would be my major concern on Gentoo... -A >> >> thanks, >> >> greg k-h >> > thanks > > Martin > >
