On Tuesday 27 Jan 2015 21:21:05 Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Just wanted to share that I switched from booting via grub2 to gummiboot > ... UEFI only now, sure. > > Back then it was quite a hassle to get my grub2-setup working, back then > I had software raid and LVM and stuff ... today with my btrfs-only > installations it was a very quick learning process. > > Just one boot from sysresccd to get the paths right ... on the 2nd > machine I got it right at the first time. > > Removed grub already and cleaned up my setup ... nice. > > Additionally I adjusted my kerninst.conf (one more pointer to Canek's > helpful tool kerninst at [1]) to write the correct loader-entries ... > works as well already. > > No actual experience with dual-booting windows or so ... but according > to the docs that should work out as well. > > .. > > I am now into checking [2] : just curious how minimal an fstab could get. > > Just some recommendation ... if someone is installing gentoo onto a > clean UEFI-system, gummiboot might be easier to use than grub2 imo. > > Stefan > > - > > [1] https://github.com/canek-pelaez/kerninst > > [2] > http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/DiscoverablePartitionsSpec/
... and if you have no need for multi-booting then the kernel efi stub is very simple to configure and still works reliably (with openrc and no initrd here). No need to install a separate boot manager. -- Regards, Mick
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