Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Grub2, uefi, gpt etc etc

[Stefan G. Weichinger]

Am 14.07.2012 11:25, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger:
> Am 14.07.2012 10:57, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger:
>
>>>> It *works* so far, still some polishing to do ... but I am quite happy
>>>> with the situation.
>
> What has to be polished:
>
> All this migration left quite some traces. I had grub and grub2, the
> EFI-stuff now in /boot/efi ... etc ... and now I have the situation
> where GRUB2 somehow reads the wrong grub.cfg or something. For example
> if I try to toggle using a font (for testing) it doesn't get read at
> boot time. Even if I re-announce(?) GRUB2 to UEFI etc.

OK, tested things, that grub.cfg gets read.

But as I set

GRUB_PLATFORMS="efi-64"

there are other modules/features/commands available at boottime, for
example also other/less videomodes, at least here.

(vbeinfo does not exist then, and other things you get when you emerge
grub with GRUB_PLATFORMS="pc". Also booting isos does not work with the
same commands then, no "linux16" command, for example)

I hesitate to re-emerge with "pc" just to get a different screen
resolution at boot-time ... right now everything is working OK for me,
and I rather wait for some feedback here before I go and crash things
again ;-)

There are quite a lot howtos out there, maybe even too much ... with
slight differences ...

Stefan