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On Sun, 1 Mar 2015 10:27:49 +0100 |
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Matti Nykyri <matti.nykyri@×××.fi> wrote: |
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> > On Mar 1, 2015, at 6:58, German <gentgerman@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > Now I need to get to /boot partition of my faulty install and edit gummiboot .conf file. Can someone walk me through on how to accomplish this? ( step-by-step commands ). Of course I have a rescuecd at my disposal. Thanks! |
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> Boot into the rescuecd |
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> Open your first disk with gdisk or parted: |
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> gdisk /dev/sda |
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> List partitions (p<enter> in gdisk and print in parted) |
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> Find a partition of the type EF00. That is your UEFI boot partition. Mark down the number of that partition. The number most likely 1. |
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> If you didn't find EF00 partition search the next disk (sdb). |
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> Mount your boot partition (in my setup it is sda1): |
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> mkdir /uefipartition |
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> mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /uefipartition |
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> nano /uefipartition/loader/entries/gentoo.conf |
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Thanks, worked like a charm. I was able to boot! |
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> Just edit and save and you are done. If you have everything setup as in the wiki (http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Gummiboot) this will work. Neil gave the same instructions... This is just a bit more detailed. |
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> I like to always keep grub installed because it is like swiss army knife for booting. You can always get a shell and find your lost kernel image. Even if it is still in /usr/src... So you kind of like never render your system to an unbootable state. Nor would need to use rescue cd. And you can boot windows, memtest, chainload etc! |
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> -Matti |
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German <gentgerman@×××××.com> |
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