Re: [gentoo-user] UEFI data corruption? [FIXED]

2019-09-30 Thread Mick
On Sun, 29 Sep 2019 at 13:25, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Sun, 29 Sep 2019 11:59:00 +0100, Mick wrote: > > > As I understand it, 'bootctl --update' can be used to update > > systemd-boot boot manager's menu and it is looking for bootable > > kernels by scanning /efi, /boot, and /boot/efi, or the d

[gentoo-user] Can't boot Minimal Installation CD (ISO loopback; not a UEFI boot)

2019-09-30 Thread akater
I downloaded a recent (20190925) Minimal Installation amd64 image and tried to boot into it from a USB device. An old version of SystemRescueCD is installed alongside and boots fine. The machine is fairly old and has traditional BIOS and 2048M RAM My GRUB menuentry for the image is menuentry "Ge

Re: [gentoo-user] UEFI data corruption? [FIXED-FIXED]

2019-09-30 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday, 24 September 2019 09:50:44 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > Right. After spending most of the last 10 days and some nights wrestling > with the beast, I've got it fixed at last. Except that I was wrong: I hadn't fixed it. I've just spent another two days with an unbootable system finding

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't boot Minimal Installation CD (ISO loopback; not a UEFI boot)

2019-09-30 Thread Mick
In the first instance have a look at the 'linux' lines here: https://gist.github.com/smoke/47f5250b9e6f59a5d172 You've missed some critical parameters, like 'cdroot'. On Mon, 30 Sep 2019 at 11:01, akater wrote: > > I downloaded a recent (20190925) Minimal Installation amd64 image and > tried to

[SOLVED] [gentoo-user] Can't boot Minimal Installation CD (ISO loopback; not a UEFI boot)

2019-09-30 Thread Akater
Mick writes: > In the first instance have a look at the 'linux' lines here: > > https://gist.github.com/smoke/47f5250b9e6f59a5d172 > > You've missed some critical parameters, like 'cdroot'. Thanks a lot, boot completed with the following parameters set: linux (loop)/boot/gentoo keymap=dvorak n

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2019-09-30 Thread Alcamech
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Re: [gentoo-user] UEFI data corruption? [FIXED-FIXED]

2019-09-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 30 Sep 2019 11:06:17 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > This morning I decided to bend with the wind. I let bootctl create > those directories again, then copied the latest kernel image into > /boot/EFI/Linux/. On running bootctl install again, everything worked > as expected. All I had to do

Re: [gentoo-user] UEFI data corruption? [FIXED]

2019-09-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 30 Sep 2019 10:02:58 +0100, Mick wrote: > > The loader files are analogous to grub.cfg, but a thousand times > > simpler (I may be understating that in my desire to avoid hyperbole). > > For example, loader.conf here is > > > > timeout 3 > > default 00-* > > > > This never needs to be modi