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From: Tom H <tomh0665@×××××.com>
To: Gentoo User <gentoo-user@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] grub -> gummiboot: good
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2015 18:38:13
Message-Id: CAOdo=SwXBdqqAqhWiAQXOUhJQfSo_JnDj8z7LM71az2V-ombpA@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] grub -> gummiboot: good by "Stefan G. Weichinger"
1 On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 1:23 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger <lists@×××××.at> wrote:
2 > On 28.01.2015 01:36, Neil Bothwick wrote:
3 >> On Wed, 28 Jan 2015 00:40:32 +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
4 >>>>
5 >>>> No need for chainloading with UEFI. Set Gummiboot as the
6 >>>> default boot option and hold down Esc (or whichever key your
7 >>>> motherboard uses, it would have been nice if UEFI had
8 >>>> standardised that too) when booting if you want Grub instead
9 >>>
10 >>> So I would have to have grub-2.x and gummiboot installed in
11 >>> parallel? Both as UEFI-"boot-entries", right?
12 >>
13 >> Yes. When I first tried Gummiboot, I left Grub as the default until
14 >> I was happy with Gummiboot, then I changed the default with
15 >> efibootmgr.
16 >
17 > And what is your partitioning and fstab?
18 >
19 > gummiboot wants all inside the ESP and this mounted at /boot:
20 >
21 > # grep boot /etc/fstab
22 > UUID=E004-1D89 /boot vfat auto 1 2
23 >
24 > The gentoo GRUB2 wiki tells me to mount that at /boot/efi ...
25 >
26 > And grub2 fails to install now (with or without --boot-directory):
27 >
28 > # grub2-install --target=x86_64-efi --boot-directory=/boot
29 > Installing for x86_64-efi platform.
30 > grub2-install: error: cannot find EFI directory.
31
32 Try to add '--efi-directory=/boot' to your grub-install invocation
33 although I wonder whether grub-mkconfig will find your kernels and
34 initramfs's if they aren't in the root of '/boot'.

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