Re: [gentoo-user] Can't boot using UEFI
On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 8:40 AM, João Matos jaon...@gmail.com wrote: Hi list, I've bought me a ultrabook dell vostro 5470, and I'm trying to get gentoo running on it. I'm having a few problems, but I'd like to correct the boot one first. I'm installing it from ubuntu live cd, and the comand: efibootmgr --create --disk /dev/sda --part 7 --label Gentoo --loader \boot\efi\boot\bootx64.efi seems to work. It put a entry on bios - Gentoo - but when I select it, the windows start (second boot). The handbook is not that clear, so I'm not sure if I should call /dev/sda7 of --part 7. Other difference is I'm not using a separate /boot. Its everything at /, so I'm also not not sure if this path is ok. This seems to be the very simple, and I'd like to have it on my system. But I've also tried grub2, and got the following error: grub2-install: error: cannot find EFI directory. What should I do? Have you tried gummiboot? AFAIR, it's a simple matter of doing: gummiboot --path=/boot install /boot should be yout EFI System Partition (ESP). Regards. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Profesor de asignatura, Facultad de Ciencias Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Re: [gentoo-user] Can't boot using UEFI
2015-06-14 11:02 GMT-03:00 Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com : Am 14.06.2015 um 15:40 schrieb João Matos: Hi list, I've bought me a ultrabook dell vostro 5470, and I'm trying to get gentoo running on it. I'm having a few problems, but I'd like to correct the boot one first. I'm installing it from ubuntu live cd, and the comand: efibootmgr --create --disk /dev/sda --part 7 --label Gentoo --loader \boot\efi\boot\bootx64.efi seems to work. It put a entry on bios - Gentoo - but when I select it, the windows start (second boot). The handbook is not that clear, so I'm not sure if I should call /dev/sda7 of --part 7. Other difference is I'm not using a separate /boot. Its everything at /, so I'm also not not sure if this path is ok. This seems to be the very simple, and I'd like to have it on my system. But I've also tried grub2, and got the following error: grub2-install: error: cannot find EFI directory. What should I do? Thank you, -- João Neto Linux User #461527 http://br.linkedin.com/pub/jo%C3%A3o-de-matos/7/316/552 so you don't have an efi boot partition? That would be your answer. Volker, the efi is already working for Windows. I just want to create a new entry. Is it really necessary to create a new partition? -- João Neto Linux User #461527 http://br.linkedin.com/pub/jo%C3%A3o-de-matos/7/316/552
Re: [gentoo-user] Can't boot using UEFI
Am 14.06.2015 um 15:40 schrieb João Matos: Hi list, I've bought me a ultrabook dell vostro 5470, and I'm trying to get gentoo running on it. I'm having a few problems, but I'd like to correct the boot one first. I'm installing it from ubuntu live cd, and the comand: efibootmgr --create --disk /dev/sda --part 7 --label Gentoo --loader \boot\efi\boot\bootx64.efi seems to work. It put a entry on bios - Gentoo - but when I select it, the windows start (second boot). The handbook is not that clear, so I'm not sure if I should call /dev/sda7 of --part 7. Other difference is I'm not using a separate /boot. Its everything at /, so I'm also not not sure if this path is ok. This seems to be the very simple, and I'd like to have it on my system. But I've also tried grub2, and got the following error: grub2-install: error: cannot find EFI directory. What should I do? Thank you, -- João Neto Linux User #461527 http://br.linkedin.com/pub/jo%C3%A3o-de-matos/7/316/552 so you don't have an efi boot partition? That would be your answer.
Re: [gentoo-user] Can't boot using UEFI
On Sunday 14 Jun 2015 14:40:40 João Matos wrote: Hi list, I've bought me a ultrabook dell vostro 5470, and I'm trying to get gentoo running on it. I'm having a few problems, but I'd like to correct the boot one first. I'm installing it from ubuntu live cd, and the comand: efibootmgr --create --disk /dev/sda --part 7 --label Gentoo --loader \boot\efi\boot\bootx64.efi seems to work. It put a entry on bios - Gentoo - but when I select it, the windows start (second boot). I think you have confused the too partitions EFI and /boot. The handbook is not that clear, so I'm not sure if I should call /dev/sda7 of --part 7. Other difference is I'm not using a separate /boot. Its everything at /, so I'm also not not sure if this path is ok. Your EFI boot code will jump to the FAT32 EFI partition. In all likelihood this is /dev/sda1. Unless you have some boot manager in there to point to your Linux partition at /dev/sda7 you will only boot what the EFI partition bootx64.efi code offers. Presently the bootx64.efi in the EFI partition is the MSWindows boot code. Create a back up if you intend to mess about with this, or you will need to use a MSWindows CD to recreate it with. This seems to be the very simple, and I'd like to have it on my system. But I've also tried grub2, and got the following error: grub2-install: error: cannot find EFI directory. Clearly it can't find the appropriate EFI partition. Have you mounted it? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Can't boot using UEFI
/ # gdisk -l /dev/sda GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 1.0.0 Partition table scan: MBR: protective BSD: not present APM: not present GPT: present Found valid GPT with protective MBR; using GPT. Disk /dev/sda: 976773168 sectors, 465.8 GiB Logical sector size: 512 bytes Disk identifier (GUID): 757FFCA9-0B35-4AC3-BA77-B935FBBC57C9 Partition table holds up to 128 entries First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 976773134 Partitions will be aligned on 2048-sector boundaries Total free space is 4029 sectors (2.0 MiB) Number Start (sector)End (sector) Size Code Name 12048 1026047 500.0 MiB EF00 EFI system partition 2 1026048 1107967 40.0 MiB Basic data partition 3 1107968 1370111 128.0 MiB 0C01 Microsoft reserved ... 4 1370112 2906111 750.0 MiB 2700 Basic data partition 5 2906112 127477759 59.4 GiB0700 Basic data partition 6 961155072 976771119 7.4 GiB 2700 Microsoft recovery ... 7 127477760 227518463 47.7 GiB8300 8 227518464 247998463 9.8 GiB 8300 9 247998464 961155071 340.1 GiB 0700 2015-06-14 11:25 GMT-03:00 Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com: On Sunday 14 Jun 2015 15:09:33 João Matos wrote: 2015-06-14 11:02 GMT-03:00 Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com Am 14.06.2015 um 15:40 schrieb João Matos: Hi list, I've bought me a ultrabook dell vostro 5470, and I'm trying to get gentoo running on it. I'm having a few problems, but I'd like to correct the boot one first. I'm installing it from ubuntu live cd, and the comand: efibootmgr --create --disk /dev/sda --part 7 --label Gentoo --loader \boot\efi\boot\bootx64.efi seems to work. It put a entry on bios - Gentoo - but when I select it, the windows start (second boot). The handbook is not that clear, so I'm not sure if I should call /dev/sda7 of --part 7. Other difference is I'm not using a separate /boot. Its everything at /, so I'm also not not sure if this path is ok. This seems to be the very simple, and I'd like to have it on my system. But I've also tried grub2, and got the following error: grub2-install: error: cannot find EFI directory. What should I do? Thank you, -- João Neto Linux User #461527 http://br.linkedin.com/pub/jo%C3%A3o-de-matos/7/316/552 so you don't have an efi boot partition? That would be your answer. Volker, the efi is already working for Windows. I just want to create a new entry. Is it really necessary to create a new partition? Can you please tell us what this shows: gdisk -l /dev/sda or fdisk -l assuming that /dev/sda is your drive. If you are multibooting then gummiboot would be advisable, but GRUB will work too. -- Regards, Mick -- João Neto Linux User #461527 http://br.linkedin.com/pub/jo%C3%A3o-de-matos/7/316/552
Re: [gentoo-user] Can't boot using UEFI
On Sunday 14 Jun 2015 15:09:33 João Matos wrote: 2015-06-14 11:02 GMT-03:00 Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com Am 14.06.2015 um 15:40 schrieb João Matos: Hi list, I've bought me a ultrabook dell vostro 5470, and I'm trying to get gentoo running on it. I'm having a few problems, but I'd like to correct the boot one first. I'm installing it from ubuntu live cd, and the comand: efibootmgr --create --disk /dev/sda --part 7 --label Gentoo --loader \boot\efi\boot\bootx64.efi seems to work. It put a entry on bios - Gentoo - but when I select it, the windows start (second boot). The handbook is not that clear, so I'm not sure if I should call /dev/sda7 of --part 7. Other difference is I'm not using a separate /boot. Its everything at /, so I'm also not not sure if this path is ok. This seems to be the very simple, and I'd like to have it on my system. But I've also tried grub2, and got the following error: grub2-install: error: cannot find EFI directory. What should I do? Thank you, -- João Neto Linux User #461527 http://br.linkedin.com/pub/jo%C3%A3o-de-matos/7/316/552 so you don't have an efi boot partition? That would be your answer. Volker, the efi is already working for Windows. I just want to create a new entry. Is it really necessary to create a new partition? Can you please tell us what this shows: gdisk -l /dev/sda or fdisk -l assuming that /dev/sda is your drive. If you are multibooting then gummiboot would be advisable, but GRUB will work too. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Can't boot using UEFI
On Sunday 14 Jun 2015 15:30:18 João Matos wrote: / # gdisk -l /dev/sda [snip ...] Number Start (sector)End (sector) Size Code Name 12048 1026047 500.0 MiB EF00 EFI system partition OK, so this is your EFI partition, not /dev/sda7. Mount /dev/sda1 and create your Linux-bootx64.efi in here. Then set Gummiboot which will detect and list the different .efi boot files you have created. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Can't boot using UEFI
Am 14.06.2015 um 16:30 schrieb João Matos: / # gdisk -l /dev/sda GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 1.0.0 Partition table scan: MBR: protective BSD: not present APM: not present GPT: present Found valid GPT with protective MBR; using GPT. Disk /dev/sda: 976773168 sectors, 465.8 GiB Logical sector size: 512 bytes Disk identifier (GUID): 757FFCA9-0B35-4AC3-BA77-B935FBBC57C9 Partition table holds up to 128 entries First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 976773134 Partitions will be aligned on 2048-sector boundaries Total free space is 4029 sectors (2.0 MiB) Number Start (sector)End (sector) Size Code Name 12048 1026047 500.0 MiB EF00 EFI system partition 2 1026048 1107967 40.0 MiB Basic data partition 3 1107968 1370111 128.0 MiB 0C01 Microsoft reserved ... 4 1370112 2906111 750.0 MiB 2700 Basic data partition 5 2906112 127477759 59.4 GiB0700 Basic data partition 6 961155072 976771119 7.4 GiB 2700 Microsoft recovery ... 7 127477760 227518463 47.7 GiB8300 8 227518464 247998463 9.8 GiB 8300 9 247998464 961155071 340.1 GiB 0700 2015-06-14 11:25 GMT-03:00 Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com mailto:michaelkintz...@gmail.com: On Sunday 14 Jun 2015 15:09:33 João Matos wrote: 2015-06-14 11:02 GMT-03:00 Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com mailto:volkerar...@googlemail.com Am 14.06.2015 um 15:40 schrieb João Matos: Hi list, I've bought me a ultrabook dell vostro 5470, and I'm trying to get gentoo running on it. I'm having a few problems, but I'd like to correct the boot one first. I'm installing it from ubuntu live cd, and the comand: efibootmgr --create --disk /dev/sda --part 7 --label Gentoo --loader \boot\efi\boot\bootx64.efi seems to work. It put a entry on bios - Gentoo - but when I select it, the windows start (second boot). The handbook is not that clear, so I'm not sure if I should call /dev/sda7 of --part 7. Other difference is I'm not using a separate /boot. Its everything at /, so I'm also not not sure if this path is ok. This seems to be the very simple, and I'd like to have it on my system. But I've also tried grub2, and got the following error: grub2-install: error: cannot find EFI directory. What should I do? Thank you, -- João Neto Linux User #461527 http://br.linkedin.com/pub/jo%C3%A3o-de-matos/7/316/552 so you don't have an efi boot partition? That would be your answer. Volker, the efi is already working for Windows. I just want to create a new entry. Is it really necessary to create a new partition? Can you please tell us what this shows: gdisk -l /dev/sda or fdisk -l assuming that /dev/sda is your drive. If you are multibooting then gummiboot would be advisable, but GRUB will work too. -- Regards, Mick -- João Neto Linux User #461527 http://br.linkedin.com/pub/jo%C3%A3o-de-matos/7/316/552 you have to put your gentoo binary into that efi boot partition. And tell efibootmgr to look there
Re: [gentoo-user] Can't boot using UEFI
2015-06-14 12:17 GMT-03:00 Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com: On Sunday 14 Jun 2015 15:30:18 João Matos wrote: / # gdisk -l /dev/sda [snip ...] Number Start (sector)End (sector) Size Code Name 12048 1026047 500.0 MiB EF00 EFI system partition OK, so this is your EFI partition, not /dev/sda7. Mount /dev/sda1 and create your Linux-bootx64.efi in here. Then set Gummiboot which will detect and list the different .efi boot files you have created. -- Regards, Mick I've Just installed grub2. It's ok for now. Gentoo is working and windows isn't. I'll back to bootloader another time. Thank you all for your tips :) -- João Neto Linux User #461527 http://br.linkedin.com/pub/jo%C3%A3o-de-matos/7/316/552
Re: [gentoo-user] Can't boot using UEFI
On Sunday 14 Jun 2015 16:22:07 João Matos wrote: I've Just installed grub2. It's ok for now. Gentoo is working and windows isn't. I'll back to bootloader another time. Thank you all for your tips :) GRUB should scan the /boot partition for any OS bootloaders and find MSWindows. Have you run update-grub? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Can't boot using UEFI
On Sun, 14 Jun 2015 17:35:48 +0100, Mick wrote: I've Just installed grub2. It's ok for now. Gentoo is working and windows isn't. I'll back to bootloader another time. Thank you all for your tips :) GRUB should scan the /boot partition for any OS bootloaders and find MSWindows. Have you run update-grub? But the ESP is not mounted at /boot. To keep things simple with UEFI, I prefer to use the ESP as /boot - if you use Gummibioot this is compulsory. -- Neil Bothwick Ralph's Observation - It is a mistake to allow any mechanical object to realize that you are in a hurry. pgpwJRW6BSV1n.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature
