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On Friday 27 Feb 2015 12:08:33 Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Fri, 27 Feb 2015 06:42:45 -0500, German wrote: |
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> > > Install grub: |
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> > > grub2-install --target=x86_64-uefi /to/your/partition |
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> > Are you sure that grub is needed for EFI system? I doubt it. I used |
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> > efibootmgr as per gentoo handbook. And it was also said that it is |
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> > possible to boot EFI system without anything at all ( e.g. grub, |
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> > efibootmgr) |
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> No, GRUB is not needed. However, using some sort of boot manager makes |
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> life easier and a number of us here are happy with Gummiboot. |
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Yes, as Neil says, GRUB, Gummiboot, rEFInd and friends offer flexibility in |
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what you boot with and are particularly helpful - if not the only solution - |
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if you want to boot a LiveCD iso image from your hard disk. |
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On the other hand, if you have a DVD drive on the machine and you don't |
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multiboot continuously, then you can use the EFI stub kernel to boot very very |
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fast. :-) |
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http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/EFI_stub_kernel |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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