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