On Friday 27 Feb 2015 12:08:33 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 27 Feb 2015 06:42:45 -0500, German wrote: > > > 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) > > No, GRUB is not needed. However, using some sort of boot manager makes > life easier and a number of us here are happy with Gummiboot.
Yes, as Neil says, GRUB, Gummiboot, rEFInd and friends offer flexibility in what you boot with and are particularly helpful - if not the only solution - if you want to boot a LiveCD iso image from your hard disk. On the other hand, if you have a DVD drive on the machine and you don't multiboot continuously, then you can use the EFI stub kernel to boot very very fast. :-) http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/EFI_stub_kernel -- Regards, Mick
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