On Dec 29, 2012 5:26 AM, "Randolph Maaßen" <r.maasse...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Guys, > > I just got my laptop back from repair, the main board and harddrive are changed, so bye bye data. I haven't created any data on gentoo, i couldn't even set up the system before it crashed. > > So I'm going to setup a new install, and I have heard that you can set up the kernel as UEFI application[1]. I have booted the system from UEFI grub2 before, so UEFI works and I know that the BIOS/UEFI has a boot manager. > > Has anyone here did this before or is this a bad idea ? > > [1]: http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/UEFI >
I haven't used UEFI before, but won't making a Gentoo kernel means more trouble when you need to update? I think letting grub2 be the UEFI app, then from there make grub2 boot Gentoo, would be preferable. You can then prepare 3 images for booting: Known Good, Previous Known Good, and Newest Testing. Once Newest Testing is confirmed to run well, Previous Known Good can be retired, Known Good demoted to Previous Known Good, and Newest Testing graduated to Known Good. Again, I have no experience with UEFI, so I am also interested if anyone can shed more light on this. Rgds, --
