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On 09/04/2014 08:14 PM, Joseph wrote: |
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> On 09/04/14 19:41, Daniel Frey wrote: |
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>> On 09/04/2014 05:36 PM, Joseph wrote: |
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>>> When I installed grub2 I got no errors: |
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>>> grub2-install /dev/sda |
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>>> Installation finished. No error reported. |
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>> If you are trying to boot in EFI mode, you aren't installing it |
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>> correctly. That installed to the MBR in legacy mode. |
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>> Instructions are here: http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GRUB2 |
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>> You need to mount /boot, and mount the EFI boot partition before |
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>> installing grub2 using `grub2-install --target=x86_64-efi`. |
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> I'm still lost with this grab2, very confusing. Gentoo official |
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> documentation did not mention any of this :-/ |
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> Official documentation did ask to create /dev/sda1 2M BIOS boot |
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> partition but there was no instruction how to mount it or format it. |
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> I was under impression Grub2 will do all of this. |
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> I booted with CD-minimal and there is no "mkdosfs" command. |
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> Do I need to format the /dev/sda1? |
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> If I do: |
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> mkfs -t vfat -F 32 -n efi-boot /dev/sda1 |
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> mkfs.vfat: No such file or directory |
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I forgot to mention in my last post that you absolutely must boot from |
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an EFI-enabled kernel, the gentoo ISOs do not do this. I used the Mint |
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17 ISO to do this, when you go to boot options it should list it as EFI |
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bootable. |
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Dan |
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