Re: [gentoo-user] tablet

2016-05-30 Thread BillK
{.9.d.e.a.8.6.2.c.-.5.c.d.d.-.4.e.7.0.-.a.c.c.1.-.f.3.2.b.3.4.4.d.4.7.9.5.}
Boot0001* Internal Storage  
FvVol(a881d567-6cb0-4eee-8435-2e72d33e45b5)/FvFile(50670071-478f-4be7-ad13-8754f379c62f)SDD.
Boot0002* USB Storage   
FvVol(a881d567-6cb0-4eee-8435-2e72d33e45b5)/FvFile(50670071-478f-4be7-ad13-8754f379c62f)USB.
Boot0003* PXE Network   
FvVol(a881d567-6cb0-4eee-8435-2e72d33e45b5)/FvFile(50670071-478f-4be7-ad13-8754f379c62f)PXE.
Boot0004* MsTemp    
PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x14,0x0)/USB(0,0)/USB(2,0)/HD(1,MBR,0x24,0x17b8,0xf13848)
Boot0005* rEFInd    
HD(1,MBR,0x24,0x17b8,0xf13848)/File(\EFI\refind\refind_x64.efi)
(chroot) sysresccd / #
 
(chroot) sysresccd / # grep -v "#" /boot/efi/EFI/refind/refind.conf
 
timeout 20
 
showtools shell, gdisk, memtest, mok_tool, windows_recovery, about, reboot, 
exit, firmware
 
scanfor internal,manual
 
menuentry Linux {
    icon /EFI/refind/icons/os_linux.png
    volume 760df07d-ec40-452f-95ee-cb47acf22069
    loader kernel-genkernel-x86_64-4.4.11-gentoo
    initrd initramfs-genkernel-x86_64-4.4.11-gentoo
    options "ro root=UUID=034f406b-be3f-41bf-a110-bf7c5bb62d8b"
}
 
menuentry "Windows 10" {
    loader \EFI\Microsoft\Boot\bootmgfw.efi
}
 
(chroot) sysresccd / #
 

On 31 May 2016 6:43:24 am AWST, Giampiero Gabbiani <giampi...@gabbiani.org> 
wrote:
>In data martedì 31 maggio 2016 05:55:10, Bill Kenworthy ha scritto:
>> On 30/05/16 20:09, Neil Bothwick wrote:
>> > On Sat, 28 May 2016 14:46:02 +0300, Thanasis wrote:
>> >> On 05/28/2016 09:03 AM, Bill Kenworthy wrote:
>> >>> I was just about to spring for a mid range MS surface pro 4
>tablet
>> >>> when I saw a few posts about hardware problems ... MS hardware is
>> >>> usually solid (in contrast to their software! :)
>> >>> 
>> >>> Are there any other similar tablets out there that are
>gentoo/Linux
>> >>> friendly that are worth looking at?
>> >>> 
>> >>> I have been using an old Samsung android tablet and google has
>just
>> >>> crossed the line and creeped me out past what I can tolerate so
>its
>> >>> time to move on  :(
>> >>> 
>> >>> BillK
>> >> 
>> >> Aquaris M10
>> >> 
>> >> https://store.bq.com/gl/
>> > 
>> > Have you actually run Gentoo on one of these?
>> 
>> Tried to do gentoo on android but was missing some essential settings
>in
>> the kernel available ... and its not the most powerful beast :)  I
>did
>> eventually build a custom cyanogenmod but in the end decided that
>with a
>> failing battery, it wasn't worth it :(
>> 
>> The surface 4 is running gentoo but but I am running out of chickens
>> trying to get the bootloader going ... seems like grub cant see the
>NVMe
>> ssd the sp4 uses and rEFInd is being ... difficult :)
>> 
>> EFI is like bad magic ... doesn't really work!  My last efi adventure
>> was an apple air some 4 years or more ago (which eventually worked) -
>it
>> hasn't progressed much in that time.
>> 
>> BillK
>
>On both surface Pro and Pro 3 it worked with the following partition:
>
>/dev/sda1 ef00 fat32 512MiB
>
>Grub2 was compiled with device-mapper USE flag and
>GRUB_PLATFORMS="efi-64"
>
>And installed with 
>
># grub2-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot/efi --boot-
>directory=/boot/efi
>
>What exactly is the problem?
>
>Grub2 succeeded in installation? If yes could you give the efibootmgr
>output?
>
>Regards
>Giampiero

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[gentoo-user] gentoo on surface

2015-02-21 Thread BillK
Has anyone installed gentoo onto an ms surface 3 tablet.  I see a few have done 
ubuntu - unlike most android tablets this looks pretty standard ...

BillK
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