In data martedì 31 maggio 2016 05:55:10, Bill Kenworthy ha scritto: > On 30/05/16 20:09, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Sat, 28 May 2016 14:46:02 +0300, Thanasis wrote: > >> On 05/28/2016 09:03 AM, Bill Kenworthy wrote: > >>> I was just about to spring for a mid range MS surface pro 4 tablet > >>> when I saw a few posts about hardware problems ... MS hardware is > >>> usually solid (in contrast to their software! :) > >>> > >>> Are there any other similar tablets out there that are gentoo/Linux > >>> friendly that are worth looking at? > >>> > >>> I have been using an old Samsung android tablet and google has just > >>> crossed the line and creeped me out past what I can tolerate so its > >>> time to move on :( > >>> > >>> BillK > >> > >> Aquaris M10 > >> > >> https://store.bq.com/gl/ > > > > Have you actually run Gentoo on one of these? > > Tried to do gentoo on android but was missing some essential settings in > the kernel available ... and its not the most powerful beast :) I did > eventually build a custom cyanogenmod but in the end decided that with a > failing battery, it wasn't worth it :( > > The surface 4 is running gentoo but but I am running out of chickens > trying to get the bootloader going ... seems like grub cant see the NVMe > ssd the sp4 uses and rEFInd is being ... difficult :) > > EFI is like bad magic ... doesn't really work! My last efi adventure > was an apple air some 4 years or more ago (which eventually worked) - it > hasn't progressed much in that time. > > BillK
On both surface Pro and Pro 3 it worked with the following partition: /dev/sda1 ef00 fat32 512MiB Grub2 was compiled with device-mapper USE flag and GRUB_PLATFORMS="efi-64" And installed with # grub2-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot/efi --boot- directory=/boot/efi What exactly is the problem? Grub2 succeeded in installation? If yes could you give the efibootmgr output? Regards Giampiero
