Re: [gentoo-user] Boot and EFI partitions

2023-12-08 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday, 7 December 2023 11:51:10 GMT I wrote: > On Wednesday, 6 December 2023 17:34:08 GMT Marco Rebhan wrote: > > No, you do not need an XBOOTLDR partition with systemd-boot and in fact I > > have never used one, and I'm not sure why the guide advertises it so > > prominently. > > I

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot and EFI partitions

2023-12-07 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday, 6 December 2023 17:34:08 GMT Marco Rebhan wrote: > On Wednesday, 6 December 2023 17:49:43 CET Victor Ivanov wrote: > > So, without knowing much about systemd-boot from the guide linked it > > seems to me that its implementation doesn't differ too much from this > > reasonably well

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot and EFI partitions

2023-12-06 Thread Victor Ivanov
On Wed, 6 Dec 2023 at 17:35, Marco Rebhan wrote: > No, you do not need an XBOOTLDR partition with systemd-boot and in fact I have > never used one, and I'm not sure why the guide advertises it so prominently. > Good to know! Then I'm not sure why the guide is advocating for one if they're both

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot and EFI partitions

2023-12-06 Thread Wols Lists
On 06/12/2023 16:36, Jack Ostroff wrote: The way I think of it is that the UEFI firmware needs to find the .efi loader, and it can only read FAT32 formatted partitions labelled as type esp. That .efi loader then needs to find your kernel and related files, but as it is specific for

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot and EFI partitions

2023-12-06 Thread Michael
On Wednesday, 6 December 2023 17:34:08 GMT Marco Rebhan wrote: > On Wednesday, 6 December 2023 17:49:43 CET Victor Ivanov wrote: > > So, without knowing much about systemd-boot from the guide linked it > > seems to me that its implementation doesn't differ too much from this > > reasonably well

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot and EFI partitions

2023-12-06 Thread Marco Rebhan
On Wednesday, 6 December 2023 17:49:43 CET Victor Ivanov wrote: > So, without knowing much about systemd-boot from the guide linked it > seems to me that its implementation doesn't differ too much from this > reasonably well established model, except for a few additional > constraints which, based

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot and EFI partitions

2023-12-06 Thread Victor Ivanov
On Wed, 6 Dec 2023 at 15:32, Peter Humphreey wrote: > > I want to use bootctl from systemd-boot, as usual, to give me a > boot menu without that grub monster. > As a disclaimer, I do not and have not used systemd-boot specifically. That said... > In particular, the Gentoo wiki says I must have

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot and EFI partitions

2023-12-06 Thread Jack Ostroff
On 12/6/23 10:32, Peter Humphreey wrote: Hello list, I have a new toy to play with - an Intel NUC with i5 (16 threads in all) and 1TB superfast M2 SSD. I grew tired of the noise and thirst of my Amari machine and I wanted something quiet and frugal, so now I'm building a new Gentoo system on

[gentoo-user] Boot and EFI partitions

2023-12-06 Thread Peter Humphreey
Hello list, I have a new toy to play with - an Intel NUC with i5 (16 threads in all) and 1TB superfast M2 SSD. I grew tired of the noise and thirst of my Amari machine and I wanted something quiet and frugal, so now I'm building a new Gentoo system on it. I want to use bootctl from