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On Sat, 2012-10-13 at 11:06 +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: |
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> Am 2012-10-13 00:52, schrieb Bill Kenworthy: |
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> > another "feature" is you have to be booted via efi so the variables are |
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> > available so it can install itself - sorta catch 22 :( |
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> Yes, I know that. No problem, when I boot from that stick, I do that via |
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> EFI, so I get the correct environment. |
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> > I just remembered another step that I missed - I dont have the syntax |
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> > but "efibootmgr" - google for the correct options. |
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> Yes ;-) |
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> I do that for days now. What puzzles me: |
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> I get the entrompties into EFI: when I boot I see the entries created by |
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> efibootmgr, but when I chose one of the entries pointing to "GRUB2" or |
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> "gentoo" the PC tells me that the disk isn't bootable. |
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> And I still don't know what is missing. AFAIK that EFI system partition |
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> is allowed to be within the first 2 TB of the disk (easy on my 1 TB |
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> hdd), has to have the boot-flag set (in parted-terms), and must be type |
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> EF02. When EFI doesn't find something bootable on the disk, my |
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> interpretation is that it can't find that partition? |
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> S |
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Do an "ls" from the grub prompt ... when booted from the usb stick grub |
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will renumber the devices in a different order. You will need to use |
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"ls" to find out what the current grub order is, edit the grub menu |
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(i.e., "e" when at the menu selection) and press F10 (I think) when done |
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to boot. The reason is grub will set itself up with the usbstick as |
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root, whereas once you boot with the correct mapping you can reissue the |
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commands to write them properly. |
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BillK |
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