On Fri, Mar 31, 2023 at 02:08:47PM -0700, Alan E. Davis wrote: > Hello: > > It's time to try running Gentoo again, after over a decade. > > I have gone through, I think, the steps, using the Gentoo LiveCD as a > launchpad. > > Installing and configuring Grub has presented a little confusion, regarding > the correct boot partition. I have other GNU/Linux installs on this > machine; for all of them, I've fallen into the practice of setting up grub > in /boot/efi. However, the Gentoo Handbook does not mention this approach, > so I tried using just "/boot". As it turned out, when I > rebooted---thinking all steps had been completed---the Gentoo system does > not appear in the Grub Menu. > > I have found that manjaro's grub setup has been good at picking up any > other installs, and, once a particular one has been booted, manjaro's grub > defaults to that other install. Thinking that even if grub is not working, > perhaps Manjaro would see Gentoo, I tried that. > > So far, no luck. I am planning to try to mount the boot partition to > /boot/efi, now, and see what happens. > > Any problems with this? > > Thank you,
It should indeed pick it up, if you have properly built your kernel and it is in the /boot directory. Have you tried running grub-mkconfig manually on your manjaro distro? -- Lee
