Re: [gentoo-user] EFI booting problem - understanding it

2020-07-03 Thread Sid Spry
On Fri, Jul 3, 2020, at 9:52 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Friday, 3 July 2020 03:05:34 BST Andrew Udvare wrote: > > On 02/07/2020 06:56, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > But then, > > > # bootctl set-default 30-gentoo-5.7.7.conf > > > Failed to update EFI variable: Invalid argument > > > > Probabl

Re: [gentoo-user] EFI booting problem - understanding it

2020-07-03 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday, 3 July 2020 03:05:34 BST Andrew Udvare wrote: > On 02/07/2020 06:56, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > But then, > > # bootctl set-default 30-gentoo-5.7.7.conf > > Failed to update EFI variable: Invalid argument > > Probably the kernel is blocking write access to EFI. This is on purpose > for s

Re: [gentoo-user] EFI booting problem - understanding it

2020-07-03 Thread Michael
On Friday, 3 July 2020 03:05:34 BST Andrew Udvare wrote: > Morning all, > > I'm trying to set the default boot entry via bootctl or efibootmgr. I know I > can set it directly by pressing D at the boot selection screen, and the > system does boot properly; I just want to understand the setup a bit

Re: [gentoo-user] EFI booting problem - understanding it

2020-07-02 Thread Andrew Udvare
On 02/07/2020 06:56, Peter Humphrey wrote: > But then, > # bootctl set-default 30-gentoo-5.7.7.conf > Failed to update EFI variable: Invalid argument Probably the kernel is blocking write access to EFI. This is on purpose for safety as you can damage your firmware quite easily. systemd-boot and ot

[gentoo-user] EFI booting problem - understanding it

2020-07-02 Thread Peter Humphrey
Morning all, I'm trying to set the default boot entry via bootctl or efibootmgr. I know I can set it directly by pressing D at the boot selection screen, and the system does boot properly; I just want to understand the setup a bit better. I don't have the rest of systemd: this is an openrc box. #