On Monday, 14 December 2020 06:07:40 GMT the...@sys-concept.com wrote:
> On 12/13/2020 06:33 AM, Victor Ivanov wrote:
> [snip]
>
> > Out of curiosity, do you have the "sys-fs/dosfstools" package installed?
> >
> > This is the package that provides the fsck.fat binary. It's not a
> > dependency of
On Monday, 14 December 2020 05:41:46 GMT Thomas Mueller wrote:
> Excerpt from Michael:
> > Right, on UEFI MoBos the ESP partition used by the UEFI firmware to locate
> > and run *.EFI executables must be FAT32. Such .EFI executables stored on
> > the ESP may be OS boot managers/loaders, or other U
On 14/12/20 05:41, Thomas Mueller wrote:
> Excerpt from Michael:
>
>> Right, on UEFI MoBos the ESP partition used by the UEFI firmware to locate
>> and
>> run *.EFI executables must be FAT32. Such .EFI executables stored on the
>> ESP
>> may be OS boot managers/loaders, or other UEFI compatib
On 12/13/2020 06:33 AM, Victor Ivanov wrote:
[snip]
>
> Out of curiosity, do you have the "sys-fs/dosfstools" package installed?
>
> This is the package that provides the fsck.fat binary. It's not a
> dependency of commonly installed system packages so unless you install
> it manually it's probab
Excerpt from Michael:
> Right, on UEFI MoBos the ESP partition used by the UEFI firmware to locate
> and
> run *.EFI executables must be FAT32. Such .EFI executables stored on the ESP
> may be OS boot managers/loaders, or other UEFI compatible applications. The
> boot manager loaded by UEFI
On Sun, 13 Dec 2020 15:02:10 +, Victor Ivanov wrote:
> > NOTE: The UEFI firmware can boot natively linux kernel images without
> > chainloading some 3rd party Boot Manager's .EFI executable like
> > GRUB,
> rEFInd,
> > syslinux, etc., as long as the EFI stub support has been enabled in
On 13/12/2020 14:17, Michael wrote:
Pre-UEFI /boot on a single partition/filesystem used to be formatted as ext2,
primarily because /boot is a small fs in size, is written to only occasionally
and unless it happened to crash while writing to it not much benefit would be
had by adding the journal
On Sun, 13 Dec 2020 14:17:18 +, Michael wrote:
> Gentoo is thankfully flexible enough to allow you to make your own
> choices on configuring your system. Whatever works for you best is a
> valid choice to make. :-)
Whatever works for most other people is a good choice if you may need
suppor
On Sunday, 13 December 2020 07:42:11 GMT the...@sys-concept.com wrote:
> On 12/12/2020 11:00 PM, Victor Ivanov wrote:
> > On 13/12/2020 03:07, the...@sys-concept.com wrote:
> >> if you have UEFI system most likely your "boot" partition is some form
> >> of "vfat"
> >
> > I strongly disagree with t
On 13/12/2020 07:42, the...@sys-concept.com wrote:
I was following the Gentoo handbook, maybe I didn't read it correctly
and/or miss the information on alternative setting. I didn't see any
explanation that I need to have support for "fsck.fat".
I better stay away from any "vfat" format on boot
On 12/12/2020 11:00 PM, Victor Ivanov wrote:
> On 13/12/2020 03:07, the...@sys-concept.com wrote:
>> if you have UEFI system most likely your "boot" partition is some form
>> of "vfat"
>
> I strongly disagree with this statement. Most Linux distributions,
> including Gentoo, advise (or outright de
On 13/12/2020 03:07, the...@sys-concept.com wrote:
if you have UEFI system most likely your "boot" partition is some form
of "vfat"
I strongly disagree with this statement. Most Linux distributions,
including Gentoo, advise (or outright default to) having your /boot
partition either separate,
On 12/12/2020 03:40 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Dec 2020 14:36:51 -0700, the...@sys-concept.com wrote:
>
>> I wipe the /boot, reinstall kernel, initframes, grub.
>> The system boots, I can login as root but X is not running,
>> the command is displaying: "(none) /#"
>>
>> When I try t
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