On Fri, 27 Feb 2015 06:57:28 +0200 Matti Nykyri <matti.nyk...@iki.fi> wrote:
> > On Feb 27, 2015, at 5:02, German <gentger...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Hi people. I am about to try today an EFI gentoo install with sysrecuecd. > > It is all more or less clear to me in the install docs, however I am not > > sure how to gather info about my hardware, which modules should be compiled > > when installing kernel manually. Is there a way to gather this info? What > > command should be issued to accomplish that? Also, I am sort of reluctant > > to compile kernel manually. Is this possible to use genkernel to install > > system in EFI mode or I must to use manual compilation? Thank you for your > > advice and suggestions. > > Just did my first EFI install this week... So not a virgin anymore ;) I had > an old system so I attached the new drive to that for partitioning and > install. > > You use gpt with uefi. You need to reserve one partition for UEFI. Set the > type to EF00 and boot flag enabled (parted or gdisk can do this). Format to > fat32. > > Make a partition for gentoo and format it. Untar stage3 and portage snapshot > to it (snapshot is faster than rsync). Chroot. Emerge portage and grub. I > copied kernel from my old system to /boot. If you don't have this build a new > one. Run grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg (mkdir if it doesn't exists. > (http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GRUB2) > > Install grub: > grub2-install --target=x86_64-uefi /to/your/partition Are you sure that grub is needed for EFI system? I doubt it. I used efibootmgr as per gentoo handbook. And it was also said that it is possible to boot EFI system without anything at all ( e.g. grub, efibootmgr) > > Then copy /boot/efi/EFI/gentoo/grubx64.efi to /boot/efi/EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.EFI > > Many asus mb's have bug in efi and require BOOTX64.EFI to be lower case = > bootx64.efi so rename it as necessary. My mb had that bug and a rename was > needed even though fat should be case insensitive. > > After this you can boot your new system and continue with the install :) > > Further reading: > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UEFIBooting > > -- > -Matti -- German <gentger...@gmail.com>
