Re: [gentoo-user] GPT-UEFI-fstab questions

[Michael Hampicke]

Am 14.11.2013 18:18, schrieb James:
> Hello,
>
> I've made another run and this, using this document guide:
> http://code.google.com/p/pentoo/wiki/UEFI#UEFI_pentoo-installer_guide_for_UEFI_and_GPT
>
> it all seem to be fine; except grub 2 cannot find the kernel.
> The GPT is read fine by grub2. But, grub 2 cannot find
> the kernel, explicitly the error messages from grub2:
>
> error : file '/boot/kernel-genkernel-x86_64-3.3.9-pentoo' not found.
> error: you need to load the kernel first
>
>
> Here is the fstab:
>
> UUID="EFA3-8415" /boot/efi                   vfat       default    0 1
> #sda2
> UUID="cf76566e-bf4e-4dee-ab9d-6fc2bcdd5b1b" /boot ext2  defaults   0 1
> #sda3
> UUID="0ef33e5a-7869-418e-86be-1ef5e16b4495"  none swap  sw         0 0
> #sda4
> UUID="fc8efde7-359e-41b1-94b0-8a9a868bdf24"  /    ext4  defaults   0 0
>
> shm             /dev/shm        tmpfs           nodev,nosuid,noexec     0 0
> /dev/cdrom              /mnt/cdrom      audo            noauto,ro       0 0
>
>
> If you look at the table, which I followed, the names are in all caps, but
> I used lowercase; could this be the problem?
>
>
>
> The table from the aforementioned doc:
>     Select "gpt" as Partition Table
>     Create the following partitions:
>
> # 	FS 	Size 	mount point 	name
> /dev/sda1 	vfat 	256M 	/boot/efi 	UEFI
> /dev/sda2 	ext2 	64M 	/boot 	BOOT
> /dev/sda3 	swap 	4G 		SWAP
> /dev/sda4 	ext4 	16G 	/ 	ROOT
>
> Booting GRUB-2 through UEFI
>
>     On "4. Install Bootloader" choose "UEFI-GRUB".
>     The UEFI boot partition will be /dev/sda1.
>     The GRUB device path will be (hd0,2) - the default, /dev/sda2 where the
> kernel resides.
>
>
> ANY IDEAS?

Please show us your grub2.cfg :-)
Also try using the output of grub2-mkconfig as your grub2.cfg and see if
your machine boots.