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On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 3:14 PM, Martin Pluskal <martin@×××××××.org> wrote: |
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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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>> 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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>> 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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Can you even guarantee that /boot is mounted when your package is |
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installed? That would be my major concern on Gentoo... |
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-A |
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>> thanks, |
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>> greg k-h |
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> thanks |
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> Martin |
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