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On Sunday 14 Jun 2015 14:40:40 João Matos wrote: |
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> Hi list, |
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> I've bought me a ultrabook dell vostro 5470, and I'm trying to get gentoo |
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> running on it. |
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> I'm having a few problems, but I'd like to correct the boot one first. |
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> I'm installing it from ubuntu live cd, and the comand: |
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> efibootmgr --create --disk /dev/sda --part 7 --label "Gentoo" --loader |
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> "\boot\efi\boot\bootx64.efi" |
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> seems to work. It put a entry on bios - Gentoo - but when I select it, the |
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> windows start (second boot). |
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I think you have confused the too partitions EFI and /boot. |
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> The handbook is not that clear, so I'm not sure if I should call /dev/sda7 |
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> of "--part 7". Other difference is I'm not using a separate /boot. Its |
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> everything at /, so I'm also not not sure if this path is ok. |
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Your EFI boot code will jump to the FAT32 EFI partition. In all likelihood |
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this is /dev/sda1. Unless you have some boot manager in there to point to |
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your Linux partition at /dev/sda7 you will only boot what the EFI partition |
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bootx64.efi code offers. Presently the bootx64.efi in the EFI partition is |
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the MSWindows boot code. Create a back up if you intend to mess about with |
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this, or you will need to use a MSWindows CD to recreate it with. |
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> This seems to be the very simple, and I'd like to have it on my system. But |
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> I've also tried grub2, and got the following error: |
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> "grub2-install: error: cannot find EFI directory." |
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Clearly it can't find the appropriate EFI partition. Have you mounted it? |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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