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> > The Gentoo Handbook says to create a small unformatted partition at the |
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> > beginning of the (primary?) disk, then to create a FAT-32 partition for |
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> > /boot, then whatever other partitions are required. |
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> Another question answered: yes, it has to be the primary disk. I installed |
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> a |
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> small test system on another disk. It has its own FAT-32 /boot partition, |
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> in |
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> which I set up a similar directory structure to the main system's. |
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> Efibootmgr |
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> still insisted on adding the UEFI entry to the main set, in spite of my |
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> telling it to use the secondary disk. And the BIOS couldn't see the image |
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> on |
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> the secondary disk. |
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I found my BIOS didn't recognise the UEFI setup until it was |
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specified/setup by efibootmgr, so that checks out. What was the efibootmgr |
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command you were using for the second disk? |
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The conclusion is that, at least on this motherboard, there is precisely |
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> one |
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> set of UEFI boot images, and it lives on the primary disk of the system. |
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> Well, |
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> I haven't yet worked out how much of it is on the disk and how much in |
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> BIOS |
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> storage. The point remains, however, that I can't spread boot images over |
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> several disks. |
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That's pretty poor. |
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What does efibootmgr show? |
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I got the impression that I would be able to UEFI boot from multiple |
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different devices, eg a USB drive with UEFI as well as the hard disk. |
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