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On Tuesday 27 Jan 2015 21:21:05 Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: |
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> Just wanted to share that I switched from booting via grub2 to gummiboot |
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> ... UEFI only now, sure. |
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> Back then it was quite a hassle to get my grub2-setup working, back then |
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> I had software raid and LVM and stuff ... today with my btrfs-only |
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> installations it was a very quick learning process. |
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> Just one boot from sysresccd to get the paths right ... on the 2nd |
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> machine I got it right at the first time. |
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> Removed grub already and cleaned up my setup ... nice. |
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> Additionally I adjusted my kerninst.conf (one more pointer to Canek's |
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> helpful tool kerninst at [1]) to write the correct loader-entries ... |
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> works as well already. |
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> No actual experience with dual-booting windows or so ... but according |
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> to the docs that should work out as well. |
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> .. |
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> I am now into checking [2] : just curious how minimal an fstab could get. |
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> Just some recommendation ... if someone is installing gentoo onto a |
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> clean UEFI-system, gummiboot might be easier to use than grub2 imo. |
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> Stefan |
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> [1] https://github.com/canek-pelaez/kerninst |
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> [2] |
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> http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/DiscoverablePartitionsSpec/ |
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... and if you have no need for multi-booting then the kernel efi stub is very |
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simple to configure and still works reliably (with openrc and no initrd here). |
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No need to install a separate boot manager. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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