Re: [gentoo-user] Anybody using refind?

[J. Roeleveld]

On Thursday, February 2, 2023 1:15:51 PM CET Klaus Dittrich wrote:
> On 02.02.23 12:33, J. Roeleveld wrote:
> > Please only send mails to the list.
> > There is no need to add me to the TO or CC lists.
> >
> > On Thursday, February 2, 2023 12:22:49 PM CET Klaus Dittrich wrote:
> >> On 02.02.23 10:51, J. Roeleveld wrote:
> >>> On Thursday, February 2, 2023 10:42:40 AM CET Klaus Dittrich wrote:
> >>>> Is there andbody using refind? Especially in Germany?
> >>>> I have some questions about.
> >>>
> >>> If you have questions, feel free to ask on this list.
> >>> I am sure I am not the only one using it.
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> Joost
> >>
> >> Joost,
> >>
> >> my current system boots from bios(mbr) not uefi.
> >>
> >> My knowlege of uefi is poor and uefi is still confusing me.
> >> So it may be some of my questions will looking silly for you.
> >
> > Did you read the well-written howto on the Gentoo website?
> >
> > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Refind[1]
> >
> >
> >
> > --------
> > [1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Refind
>
> Joost,
>
> no. Thanks for the hint, I had just a short look into at it.
>
> There is presupposed that one is at a uefi system already.
>
> I have to install refind to a disk mounted to my mbr-booted-system,
> make all necessary adjustments there and then put it to the uefi-only
> machine and boot it there.
>
> So I cannot call efibootmanger to pin refind to nvram of the uefi-system.

Use a USB boot-stick with EFI image, like the gentoo one. See the relevant section in the 
Gentoo installguide:

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:AMD64/Installation/Media[1]


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[1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:AMD64/Installation/Media