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On 4.2.2013 23:59, Greg KH wrote: |
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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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>>> |
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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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Well it cannot, elilo.efi has to be placed to /boot/efi, install path is |
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however /usr/lib/elilo/elilo.efi. |
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> So how can anything that is .efi _not_ be in /boot/efi and still work? |
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I am talking about location to which .efi is supposed to be placed after |
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installation, not necessary from which it can work. |
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> |
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> Have you tried this out on your system with any success? |
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Why would I try it? I am not suggesting that it would work. After you |
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emerge elilo or grub2 you are still not able to boot unless you do other |
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steps (grub2-install or cp elilo.efi /boot/efi... && efibootmgr ... etc.) |
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> |
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> What exactly is the issue you are trying to solve here? |
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I am thinking about creating ebuild for shim. I was wondering if there |
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is any policy or suggestion where to place .efi binaries or how to |
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handle them in gentoo - it seems that there is none so perhaps there |
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should be agreed on what best practice is (install directly into |
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/boot/efi or install else and let user manually copy .efi to /boot/efi |
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or something completely different (eselect efi ...)). |
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In suse default path is for example /usr/lib64/efi/: |
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ls /usr/lib64/efi/: |
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MokManager.efi elilo.efi shim-suse.efi shim.efi |
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xen-4.2.1_02-0.7.2.efi xen-4.2.efi xen-4.efi xen.efi |
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yet /boot/efi contains only elilo.efi |
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> thanks, |
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> |
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> greg k-h |
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> |
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thanks |
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Martin |
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