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On Mon, Feb 04, 2013 at 11:45:22PM +0100, Martin Pluskal wrote: |
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> On 4.2.2013 23:34, Greg KH wrote: |
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> > On Mon, Feb 04, 2013 at 08:13:58PM +0100, Martin Pluskal wrote: |
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> >> Hi |
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> >> I am curious what is the proper path for installation of efi binaries |
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> >> (such as shim.efi) in gentoo. I don't think that installing them |
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> >> directly into /boot/efi... is proper way - it seems to me that |
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> >> /usr/lib64/efi or /usr/libexec/efi is more appropriate location for |
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> >> them. What's your opinion? |
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> > It depends on if you want the bootloader to use the binary or not. If |
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> > you do, it needs to be in /boot/efi/, otherwise it will never be able to |
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> > be run by the UEFI system. |
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> Well, in order to boot you have to place .efi into /boot/efi, I am not |
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> sure if it is the best idea to directly install everything with .efi |
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> into /boot/efi. As far as I know, elilo is installed into /usr/lib/elilo |
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> and grub2 is placed into /boot/efi by grub2-install. |
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If elilo is in /usr/lib/elilo, the UEFI bios can not run the binary as |
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it can't even see the filesystem to read the binary from. |
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So how can anything that is .efi _not_ be in /boot/efi and still work? |
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Have you tried this out on your system with any success? |
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What exactly is the issue you are trying to solve here? |
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thanks, |
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greg k-h |
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