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From: "Canek Peláez Valdés" <caneko@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] gummibootx64.efi OR bootx64.efi?
Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2015 08:11:00
Message-Id: CADPrc81-ehfvAXN-8+ah-RUJ+rSV6Y=SbbgF+6A_=XcAkDDFfQ@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] gummibootx64.efi OR bootx64.efi? by German
1 On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 2:03 AM, German <gentgerman@×××××.com> wrote:
2 >
3 > On Mon, 2 Mar 2015 01:41:19 -0600
4 > Canek Peláez Valdés <caneko@×××××.com> wrote:
5 >
6 > > On Sun, Mar 1, 2015 at 11:11 PM, German <gentgerman@×××××.com> wrote:
7 > > >
8 > > > Out of curiosity I looked into my /boot partition and found two .efi
9 > > files. One is /boot/efi/gummiboot/gummibootx64.efi and another is
10 > > /boot/efi/boot/bootx64.efi. I remember I've created
11 > > /boot/efi/boot/bootx64.efi during install by copying kernel image file
12 to
13 > > it and supposedly it was for efibootmng. I think gummiboot has created
14 its
15 > > own gummibootx64.efi. Is that safe to delete */boot/bootx64.efi? Thanks
16 > >
17 > > They are the same image; do an md5sum of both, you'll see that they have
18 > > the same checksum.
19 > >
20 > > I believe Boot/BOOTX64.EFI is the default location where the "BIOS" (or
21 > > whatever is called in UEFI systems) looks for an image to boot,
22 > > and gummiboot/gummibootx64.efi is just a copy. I'm not sure, but I would
23 > > not delete it:
24 >
25 > gummiboot creates both copies of the file.
26 >
27 > Well, no, I have created */boot/bootx64.efi manually and
28 */gummiboot/gummibootx64.efi was created by gummiboot install.
29
30 In my machines boot/bootx64.efi was created by gummiboot, and it's the same
31 ile as gummiboot/gummibootx64.efi (same checksum).
32
33 What does bootctl says?
34
35 Regards.
36 --
37 Canek Peláez Valdés
38 Profesor de asignatura, Facultad de Ciencias
39 Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

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Re: [gentoo-user] gummibootx64.efi OR bootx64.efi? German <gentgerman@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] gummibootx64.efi OR bootx64.efi? German <gentgerman@×××××.com>