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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 entries 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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Maybe the boot entry in the EFI firmware is wrong. That's what mine |
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looks like: |
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# efibootmgr -v |
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BootCurrent: 0000 |
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Timeout: 2 seconds |
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BootOrder: 0000,0002,0003,0004 |
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Boot0000* grub2 |
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HD(1,800,40000,2693e7bd-d35e-4a39-9bb9-365ee533d690)File(\EFI\grub2\grubx64.efi) |
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Boot0002* Hard Drive BIOS(2,0,00)USB DISK 1100. |
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Boot0003* Network Card BIOS(6,0,00)Realtek PXE B05 D00. |
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Boot0004* Removable Drive BIOS(1,0,00)HTC Android Phone 0000. |
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