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On Mon, 2 Mar 2015 02:10:33 -0600 |
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Canek Peláez Valdés <caneko@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 2:03 AM, German <gentgerman@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > On Mon, 2 Mar 2015 01:41:19 -0600 |
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> > Canek Peláez Valdés <caneko@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > > On Sun, Mar 1, 2015 at 11:11 PM, German <gentgerman@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > > > Out of curiosity I looked into my /boot partition and found two .efi |
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> > > files. One is /boot/efi/gummiboot/gummibootx64.efi and another is |
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> > > /boot/efi/boot/bootx64.efi. I remember I've created |
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> > > /boot/efi/boot/bootx64.efi during install by copying kernel image file |
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> > > it and supposedly it was for efibootmng. I think gummiboot has created |
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> > > own gummibootx64.efi. Is that safe to delete */boot/bootx64.efi? Thanks |
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> > > They are the same image; do an md5sum of both, you'll see that they have |
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> > > the same checksum. |
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> > > I believe Boot/BOOTX64.EFI is the default location where the "BIOS" (or |
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> > > whatever is called in UEFI systems) looks for an image to boot, |
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> > > and gummiboot/gummibootx64.efi is just a copy. I'm not sure, but I would |
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> > > not delete it: |
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> > gummiboot creates both copies of the file. |
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> > Well, no, I have created */boot/bootx64.efi manually and |
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> */gummiboot/gummibootx64.efi was created by gummiboot install. |
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> In my machines boot/bootx64.efi was created by gummiboot, and it's the same |
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> ile as gummiboot/gummibootx64.efi (same checksum). |
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I just did md5sums and yes, gummibootx64.efi and bootx64.efi are the same |
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> What does bootctl says? |
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> Regards. |
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> Canek Peláez Valdés |
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> Profesor de asignatura, Facultad de Ciencias |
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> Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México |
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German <gentgerman@×××××.com> |