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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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> Unless you really think that having /usr/ as a vfat filesystem is ok? |
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> :) |
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> thanks, |
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> greg k-h |
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