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On Thursday 08 November 2012 13:53:22 Randolph Maaßen wrote: |
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> 2012/11/8 <jdm@××××××××××××.uk> |
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> > Over the last few days I have tried to set up using uefi gpt and |
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grub2. |
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> > After many hours of frustration I have gone back to grub legacy |
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and mbr. |
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> > |
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> > I followed the Gentoo wiki and Arch wiki and several other |
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sources of |
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> > which I failed miserably. Is this technology fairly unreliable? I |
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booted |
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> > from a uefi enabled usb stick but still fell over. Is this ready for |
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> > mainstream or |
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> > |
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> > still alpha like? |
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> > |
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> > Also does ufibootmgr change motherboard firmware? Somehow |
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this feels |
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> > wrong if the case. |
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> > |
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> > John D Maunder |
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> Hi, |
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> I tried installing UEFI GPT too a few months ago, but I had a semi |
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success. |
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> After some days of fiddeling around with parameters and variables I |
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could |
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> boot the system, but I can't see the kernel output or open-rc. But the |
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X |
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built-in efifb and add video=efifb to kernel command line. |
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> loads and the system works after that like normal, but without the |
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textual |
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> ttys. terminal emulations like xterm or so work. So I would install it |
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> again, but it isn't as easy as thought. |
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