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On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 2:00 AM, Fernando Rodriguez |
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<frodriguez.developer@×××××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Saturday, February 28, 2015 12:50:37 PM Tom H wrote: |
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>> On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 5:47 PM, Fernando Rodriguez |
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>> <frodriguez.developer@×××××××.com> wrote: |
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>>> |
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>>> Efibootmgr is not a boot manager, it's an utility to interface with the EFI |
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>>> firmware on the motherboard and you don't need to hardcode the command line |
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> on |
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>>> the kernel, look at the -u option of efibootmgr. You can even load an |
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> initrd |
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>>> with it by specifying the efi_memmap boot option. I use something like this |
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> (it |
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>>> shoulld work with any firmware because Windows uses it): |
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>>> |
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>>> efibootmgr -p 2 -c -b 0001 -l "\EFI\Linux\vmlinuz.efi" -L "Gentoo Linux" -u |
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>>> "root=/dev/sda2 resume=/dev/sda3 quiet splash efi_memmap |
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>>> initrd=/EFI/Linux/initramfs.img" |
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>> |
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>> Interesting. I must be over-complicating things because I use the |
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>> following when I want to use the EFI stub without gummiboot: |
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>> # cat /boot/efi/efi-extra.txt \ |
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>> | iconv -f ascii -t ucs2 \ |
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>> | efibootmgr -b 0000 -c -L 3.19.0 -l vmlinuz-3.19.0 -u -@ - |
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>> where |
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>> |
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>> # cat /boot/efi/efi-extra.txt |
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>> initrd=initrd.img-3.19.0 |
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>> root=UUID=b51ee688-137c-47ec-9635-b69434b4e1f8 ro |
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>> init=/lib/systemd/systemd |
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> It's a good idea to do that as it's less error prone. I don't know if you need |
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> iconv in the pipeline but if you put the arguments on the command line it's |
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> not needed. I just called my kernel vmlinuz.efi so I don't need to do that |
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> everytime I update it and use grub if I need to boot an alternate kernel or |
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> boot with different options. |
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Thanks. Next time that I feel adventurous, I'll replace my gummiboot |
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nvram entry with a vmlinuz one without cat and iconv. I made big |
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changes after the last efi boot thread on this list so I'll wait a |
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bit. :) |