On 31/05/16 06:43, Giampiero Gabbiani wrote: > 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 >
Working ... well the basics (console)! EFI - was down to me misunderstanding the syntax for refind and then a few other bugs/missing kernel driver etc. Booting from rEFInd directly using the kernel EFI stub. grub2 has been removed. Patched the kernel for the type 4 keyboard so have the MS type 4 KB working at the console including the mousepad (using gpm) WiFi (thanks to the the recent wpa_supplicant thread saving me time to refamilise myself with this) working to WPA2 - relatively easy :) Next is X and the fruit :) BillK
