| 1 |
On Thu, 30 Jun 2016 14:38:26 +0200 |
| 2 |
Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote: |
| 3 |
|
| 4 |
> So if you have some time, please reply to this thread with |
| 5 |
> a specific /boot layout that you think needs to be handled, with |
| 6 |
> as much helpful information as possible -- including possible |
| 7 |
> distinctive features and pitfalls. |
| 8 |
|
| 9 |
I use genkernel to build my kernels and initramfsen. Most of my |
| 10 |
machines don’t support EFI, so my /boot contains a bunch of |
| 11 |
{initramfs,kernel,System.map}-$KV files plus the |
| 12 |
{initramfs,kernel,System.map}.old symlinks. My GRUB2 grub.cfg points at |
| 13 |
the symlinks. Once in a while (usually when I get disk full errors on |
| 14 |
the dedicated partition) I delete the old files by hand. |
| 15 |
|
| 16 |
A couple of my machines do support EFI. On those, I set INSTALL=no in |
| 17 |
genkernel.conf. I then run a custom script afterwards which maintains |
| 18 |
directories /boot/EFI/gentoo and /boot/EFI/gentoo-old. Each of these |
| 19 |
contains a file kernel.efi and another file initramfs. This is FAT, so |
| 20 |
no symlinks. The script deletes gentoo-old, copies gentoo to |
| 21 |
gentoo-old, and finally puts the new files in gentoo. I have EFI boot |
| 22 |
records pointing to both, using initrd=\gentoo\initramfs syntax. |
| 23 |
-- |
| 24 |
Christopher Head |
Archives