Re: [gentoo-user] installed Gentoo on SSD - no bootable device

[Joseph]

On 09/04/14 20:44, Daniel Frey wrote:
>On 09/04/2014 08:14 PM, Joseph wrote:
>> On 09/04/14 19:41, Daniel Frey wrote:
>>> On 09/04/2014 05:36 PM, Joseph wrote:
>>>> When I installed grub2 I got no errors:
>>>> grub2-install /dev/sda
>>>> Installation finished. No error reported.
>>>>
>>>
>>> If you are trying to boot in EFI mode, you aren't installing it
>>> correctly. That installed to the MBR in legacy mode.
>>>
>>>
>>> Instructions are here: http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GRUB2
>>>
>>> You need to mount /boot, and mount the EFI boot partition before
>>> installing grub2 using `grub2-install --target=x86_64-efi`.
>>
>> I'm still lost with this grab2, very confusing.  Gentoo official
>> documentation did not mention any of this :-/
>>
>> Official documentation did ask to create /dev/sda1 2M BIOS boot
>> partition but there was no instruction how to mount it or format it.
>> I was under impression Grub2 will do all of this.
>> I booted with CD-minimal and there is no "mkdosfs" command.
>>
>> Do I need to format the /dev/sda1?
>>
>> If I do:
>> mkfs -t vfat -F 32 -n efi-boot /dev/sda1
>> mkfs.vfat: No such file or directory
>>
>
>I forgot to mention in my last post that you absolutely must boot from
>an EFI-enabled kernel, the gentoo ISOs do not do this. I used the Mint
>17 ISO to do this, when you go to boot options it should list it as EFI
>bootable.

Thank you for explanation.
I have a question with regards to that EFI.  Does it refer to this /dev/sda1 2M BIOS boot partition?
So this partition needs to be formatted to DOS file system and mounted in /boot/efi directory? 

Gentoo Documentation is very outdated and confusing when it comes to this new GRUB2.
Sometimes I want to scrap this crap and go back to standard legacy GRUB.

-- 
Joseph