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From: German <gentgerman@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] gummibootx64.efi OR bootx64.efi?
Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2015 08:18:30
Message-Id: 20150302031818.fcd2e09cc296a263cf533b72@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] gummibootx64.efi OR bootx64.efi? by "Canek Peláez Valdés"
1 On Mon, 2 Mar 2015 02:10:33 -0600
2 Canek Peláez Valdés <caneko@×××××.com> wrote:
3
4 > On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 2:03 AM, German <gentgerman@×××××.com> wrote:
5 > >
6 > > On Mon, 2 Mar 2015 01:41:19 -0600
7 > > Canek Peláez Valdés <caneko@×××××.com> wrote:
8 > >
9 > > > On Sun, Mar 1, 2015 at 11:11 PM, German <gentgerman@×××××.com> wrote:
10 > > > >
11 > > > > Out of curiosity I looked into my /boot partition and found two .efi
12 > > > files. One is /boot/efi/gummiboot/gummibootx64.efi and another is
13 > > > /boot/efi/boot/bootx64.efi. I remember I've created
14 > > > /boot/efi/boot/bootx64.efi during install by copying kernel image file
15 > to
16 > > > it and supposedly it was for efibootmng. I think gummiboot has created
17 > its
18 > > > own gummibootx64.efi. Is that safe to delete */boot/bootx64.efi? Thanks
19 > > >
20 > > > They are the same image; do an md5sum of both, you'll see that they have
21 > > > the same checksum.
22 > > >
23 > > > I believe Boot/BOOTX64.EFI is the default location where the "BIOS" (or
24 > > > whatever is called in UEFI systems) looks for an image to boot,
25 > > > and gummiboot/gummibootx64.efi is just a copy. I'm not sure, but I would
26 > > > not delete it:
27 > >
28 > > gummiboot creates both copies of the file.
29 > >
30 > > Well, no, I have created */boot/bootx64.efi manually and
31 > */gummiboot/gummibootx64.efi was created by gummiboot install.
32 >
33 > In my machines boot/bootx64.efi was created by gummiboot, and it's the same
34 > ile as gummiboot/gummibootx64.efi (same checksum).
35 >
36 > What does bootctl says?
37
38 bootctl: command not found. How to use bootctl?
39 >
40 > Regards.
41 > --
42 > Canek Peláez Valdés
43 > Profesor de asignatura, Facultad de Ciencias
44 > Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
45
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48 German <gentgerman@×××××.com>

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