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I believe what you've said is correct... because I'm pretty sure I read it |
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in the documentation. |
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On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 11:08 PM, Joseph <syscon780@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On 09/04/14 20:44, Daniel Frey wrote: |
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>> On 09/04/2014 08:14 PM, Joseph wrote: |
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>>> On 09/04/14 19:41, Daniel Frey wrote: |
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>>>> On 09/04/2014 05:36 PM, Joseph wrote: |
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>>>>> When I installed grub2 I got no errors: |
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>>>>> grub2-install /dev/sda |
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>>>>> Installation finished. No error reported. |
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>>>>> |
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>>>>> |
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>>>> If you are trying to boot in EFI mode, you aren't installing it |
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>>>> correctly. That installed to the MBR in legacy mode. |
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>>>> Instructions are here: http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GRUB2 |
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>>>> |
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>>>> You need to mount /boot, and mount the EFI boot partition before |
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>>>> installing grub2 using `grub2-install --target=x86_64-efi`. |
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>>> I'm still lost with this grab2, very confusing. Gentoo official |
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>>> documentation did not mention any of this :-/ |
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>>> Official documentation did ask to create /dev/sda1 2M BIOS boot |
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>>> partition but there was no instruction how to mount it or format it. |
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>>> I was under impression Grub2 will do all of this. |
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>>> I booted with CD-minimal and there is no "mkdosfs" command. |
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>>> Do I need to format the /dev/sda1? |
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>>> |
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>>> If I do: |
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>>> mkfs -t vfat -F 32 -n efi-boot /dev/sda1 |
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>>> mkfs.vfat: No such file or directory |
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>> I forgot to mention in my last post that you absolutely must boot from |
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>> an EFI-enabled kernel, the gentoo ISOs do not do this. I used the Mint |
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>> 17 ISO to do this, when you go to boot options it should list it as EFI |
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>> bootable. |
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> Thank you for explanation. |
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> I have a question with regards to that EFI. Does it refer to this |
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> /dev/sda1 2M BIOS boot partition? |
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> So this partition needs to be formatted to DOS file system and mounted in |
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> /boot/efi directory? |
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> Gentoo Documentation is very outdated and confusing when it comes to this |
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> new GRUB2. |
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> Sometimes I want to scrap this crap and go back to standard legacy GRUB. |
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> -- |
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> Joseph |
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