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From: "Stefan G. Weichinger" <lists@×××××.at>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: GPT-UEFI-fstab questions
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2013 19:48:36
Message-Id: 528A6F01.1000406@xunil.at
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: GPT-UEFI-fstab questions by James
1 Am 14.11.2013 21:23, schrieb James:
2
3 >>> timeout=5
4 >>> menuentry 'Pentoo' {
5 >>> insmod efi_gop
6 >>> insmod efi_uga
7 >>> insmod part_msdos
8 >>> insmod part_gpt
9 >>> root=(hd0,2)
10 >>> linux /boot/kernel-genkernel-x86_64-3.9.9-pentoo root=/dev/ram0
11 >>> real_root= video= console=tty1 ro
12 >>> initrd /boot/initramfs-genkernel-x86_64-3.9.9-pentoo
13 >>> }
14 >>>
15 >>
16 >> Do you have the boot symlink on your boot partition?
17 >> $ ls -al /boot/boot
18 >> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1 Sep 23 2011 /boot/boot -> .
19
20
21 I want to take another effort and retry to get my box booted via UEFI
22 again. I had that working back then, Gentoo and Win7 ... since it failed
23 due to some SSD-swapping and stuff I have never seen Win7 again ;-)
24
25 Aside from the "I want it because it sounds more modern and is
26 complicated": do we get any benefit from booting via UEFI?
27
28 AFAI understand (haven't googled it today but read about it back then)
29 one of the major issues is hdd- and partition-size, right? So if I only
30 have disks/partitions smaller than 2 TB ... no real difference, right?
31
32 I also play around with the booting of EFI-Stub-Kernels ... (getting rid
33 of GRUB2)
34
35 I got it started but it somehow stopped booting and just sat there. With
36 and without EFI_FB set.
37
38 Maybe I should use part-uuids instead of device-names next time
39 especially as I have / on sdc1 and the UEFI-ESP on sda1 (just a thought).
40
41 just asking for discussion and experience ...
42
43 Stefan

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